Jeremiah 10:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the customs of the peoples are false: a tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan;

Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 1:16

And I will utter my judgments against them for all their wickedness in forsaking me; they have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me and went after worthless things and became worthless themselves?

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge not to commit any of these abominations that were done before you and not to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Acts 19:26

You also see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost the whole of Asia this Paul has persuaded and drawn away a considerable number of people by saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Romans 1:21

for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold