Deuteronomy 4:16

New American Bible - revised edition

not to act corruptly by fashioning an idol for yourselves to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or of a woman,

Cross References

Exodus 32:7

Then the Lord said to Moses: Go down at once because your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom can you liken God? With what likeness can you confront him?

Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker stretches a line, and marks out a shape with a stylus. He shapes it with scraping tools, with a compass measures it off, Making it the copy of a man, human display, enthroned in a shrine.

Ezekiel 8:10

I went in and looked—figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts, all the idols of the house of Israel, pictured around the wall.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn aside to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 26:1

Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the Lord, am your God.

John 4:24

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

Acts 17:29

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Deuteronomy 16:22

nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the Lord, your God, hates.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you are sure to act corruptly and to turn aside from the way along which I commanded you, so that evil will befall you in time to come because you have done what is evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him by your deeds. The Song of Moses.

Deuteronomy 4:23

Be careful, therefore, lest you forget the covenant which the Lord, your God, has made with you, and fashion for yourselves against his command an idol in any form whatsoever.

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God,

Deuteronomy 5:8

You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Deuteronomy 9:12

the Lord said to me, Go down from here now, quickly, for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt are acting corruptly; they have already turned aside from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a molten idol.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Responsibility of Timothy.