Idolatry

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 115:7 OT

  They have hands, but they don’t feel. They have feet, but they don’t walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

• Habakkuk 2:19 OT

  Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.

• Jeremiah 3:9 OT

  Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

• Jeremiah 32:34 OT

  But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

• Ezekiel 7:20 OT

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

• Ezekiel 16:36 OT

  ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave…

• Isaiah 41:29 OT

  Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

• Isaiah 41:24 OT

  Behold, you are nothing, and your work is nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

• 1 Corinthians 8:4 NT

  Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

• Jeremiah 10:5 OT

  They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak. They must be carried, because they can’t move. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”

• Jeremiah 14:22 OT

  Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

• Isaiah 44:10-20 OT

  Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put…

• Deuteronomy 28:64 OT

  Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

• Hosea 4:17 OT

  Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

• Deuteronomy 4:15-19 OT

  Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or…

• Ezekiel 14:6 OT

  “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

• Acts 14:15 NT

  “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

• 1 Thessalonians 1:9 NT

  For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

• Romans 1:26-32 NT

  For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another,…

• Acts 15:20 NT

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• 1 John 5:21 NT

  Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

• 1 Corinthians 10:14 NT

  Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

• Deuteronomy 7:26 OT

  You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it. You shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

• 1 Corinthians 10:19 NT

  What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?