Deuteronomy 4:25

God's Word

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,

Cross References

2 Kings 21:2

He did what the Lord considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that the Lord had forced out of the Israelites’ way.

Psalm 78:58

They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Exodus 20:4

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

Exodus 32:7

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

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.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they refused to listen to him. They will wander among the nations.

Hosea 9:9

People have deeply corrupted themselves as they once did at Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them because of their sins.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? Are we stronger than he is?

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 28:45

All these curses will come to you. They will pursue you and stay close to you until you’re destroyed, because you didn’t obey the Lord your God or follow his commands and laws, which I’m giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:61

The Lord will also bring you every kind of sickness and plague not written in this Book of Teachings. They will continue until you’re dead.

Deuteronomy 30:18

If you do, I tell you today that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live for a long time in the land that you’re going to take possession of when you cross the Jordan River.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.

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 32:5

He recognizes that his people are corrupt. To their shame they are no longer his children. They are devious and scheming.

Deuteronomy 4:16

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

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.

Joshua 23:16

When you ignore the conditions  placed on you by the Lord your God and follow other gods, serve them and bow down to them, the Lord will be angry with you. Then you will quickly disappear from the good land he has given you.”

Joshua 24:20

If you abandon the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you. He will destroy you, although he has been so good to you.”