Quotes About Idolatry

The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

Woe to him who says to wood, ëAwake!í or to silent stone, ëArise!í Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.”

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

“I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests—

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

“All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.”

They said to Aaron, ëMake us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.í

At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.í

And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by manís skill and imagination.

It began with a silversmith named Demetrius who made silver shrines of Artemis, bringing much business to the craftsmen.

And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

When the men heard this, they were enraged and began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.