Deuteronomy 4:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁶ beware lest you act corruptly by making a graven image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Beware lest you become corrupt by making for yourselves [to worship] a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Don’t ruin everything and make an idol for yourself: a form of any image, any likeness—male or female—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Otherwise, perhaps being deceived, you might have made a graven image, or an image of male or female,

Deuteronomy 4:16 Cross References

Acts 17:29

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man.

Deuteronomy 5:8

“ ‘You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

Deuteronomy 4:23

Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.

Exodus 32:7

And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

John 4:24

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Isaiah 40:18

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

Deuteronomy 4:25

“When you beget children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a graven image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Deuteronomy 9:12

Then the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molten image.’

Deuteronomy 27:15

“ ‘Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 16:22

And you shall not set up a pillar, which the Lord your God hates.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter stretches a line, he marks it out with a pencil; he fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and saw; and there, portrayed upon the wall round about, were all kinds of creeping things, and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.