91 Bible Verses about Rejecting Images and False Gods

My dear children, keep clear of idols.

Well then, with regard to food that has been offered to idols, I am quite aware that 'there is no such thing as an idol in the world' and that 'there is only the one God.'

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

Shun idolatry, then, my beloved.

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

Well, as the race of God, we ought not to imagine that the divine nature resembles gold or silver or stone, the product of human art and invention.

They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God — as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other — you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples?

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?