Deuteronomy 4:25

New Century Version

Even after you have lived in the land a long time and have had children and grandchildren, don’t do evil things. Don’t make any kind of idol, and don’t do what the Lord your God says is evil, because that will make him angry.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:2

He did what the Lord said was wrong. He did the hateful things the other nations had done—the nations that the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of the Israelites.

Psalm 78:58

They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

Exodus 20:4

“You must not make for yourselves an idol that looks like anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.

Exodus 32:7

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down from this mountain, because your people, the people you brought out of the land of Egypt, have ruined themselves.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I entered and looked, and I saw every kind of crawling thing and hateful beast and all the idols of the people of Israel, carved on the wall all around.

Hosea 9:17

God will reject them, because they have not obeyed him; they will wander among the nations.

Hosea 9:9

The people of Israel have gone deep into sin as the people of Gibeah did. The Lord will remember the evil things they have done, and he will punish their sins.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Are we trying to make the Lord jealous? We are not stronger than he is, are we?

Deuteronomy 16:22

and do not set up holy stone pillars. The Lord your God hates them.

Deuteronomy 27:15

“Anyone will be cursed who makes an idol or statue and secretly sets it up, because the Lord hates the idols people make.” Then all the people will say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you. They will chase you and catch you and destroy you, because you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and laws he gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:61

The Lord will also give you every disease and sickness not written in this Book of the Teachings, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 30:18

I tell you today that you will surely be destroyed. And you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and take as your own.

Deuteronomy 30:19

Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live.

Deuteronomy 31:29

I know that after I die you will become completely evil. You will turn away from the commands I have given you. Terrible things will happen to you in the future when you do what the Lord says is evil, and you will make him angry with the idols you have made.”

Deuteronomy 32:5

They have done evil against him. To their shame they are no longer his children; they are an evil and lying people.

Deuteronomy 4:16

Don’t sin by making idols of any kind, and don’t make statues—of men or women,

Deuteronomy 4:23

Be careful. Don’t forget the Agreement of the Lord your God that he made with you, and don’t make any idols for yourselves, as the Lord your God has commanded you not to do.

Joshua 23:16

This will happen if you don’t keep your agreement with the Lord your God. If you go and serve other gods and worship them, the Lord will become very angry with you. Then none of you will be left in this good land he has given you.”

Joshua 24:20

If you leave the Lord and serve other gods, he will send you great trouble. The Lord may have been good to you, but if you turn against him, he will destroy you.”