Deuteronomy 4:16

God's Word

that you don’t become corrupt and make your own carved idols. Don’t make statues that represent men or women,

Cross References

Exodus 32:7

The Lord said to Moses, “Go back down there. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have ruined ⌞everything⌟.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom, then, can you compare God? To what statue can you compare him?

Isaiah 44:13

Carpenters measure blocks of wood with ⌞chalk⌟ lines. They mark them with pens. They carve them with chisels and mark them with compasses. They carve them into forms of people, beautiful people, so the idols can live in shrines.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked. I saw that the walls were covered with drawings of every kind of crawling creature, every kind of disgusting animal, and all the idols in the nation of Israel.

Leviticus 19:4

“Don’t turn to worthless gods or cast metal idols. Never make any gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

⌞The Lord continued,⌟ “Never make worthless idols or set up a carved statue or a sacred stone for yourselves. Never cut figures in stone to worship them in your country, because I am the Lord your God.

John 4:24

God is a spirit. Those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Acts 17:29

So if we are God’s children, we shouldn’t think that the divine being is like an image made from gold, silver, or stone, an image that is the product of human imagination and skill.

Deuteronomy 16:22

Never set up a sacred stone. These are things the Lord your God hates.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Whoever has a carved or metal statue, anything disgusting to the Lord that was made by a craftsman, and sets it up in secret will be cursed.” Then all the people will say amen.

Deuteronomy 31:29

I know that after I die you will become thoroughly corrupt and turn from the way I have commanded you to live. In the days to come disasters will happen to you because you will make the Lord furious by doing what he considers evil.”

Deuteronomy 4:23

Be careful that you don’t forget the promise  that the Lord your God made to you. Don’t make your own carved idols or statues that represent anything the Lord your God has forbidden.

Deuteronomy 4:25

Even when you have children and grandchildren and have grown old in that land, don’t become corrupt and make carved idols or statues that represent anything. I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today:  If you do this thing that the Lord your God considers evil, making him furious,

Deuteronomy 5:8

Never make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.

Deuteronomy 5:9

Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Deuteronomy 9:12

He told me, “Leave right away. Your people whom you brought out of Egypt have ruined ⌞everything⌟. They’ve quickly turned from the way I commanded them to live. They’ve made an idol for themselves.”

1 Timothy 1:17

Worship and glory belong forever to the eternal king, the immortal, invisible, and only God. Amen.