Jeremiah 10:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for the customs of the peoples are false. A tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge 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 burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited naught but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Leviticus 18:30

So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and never to defile yourselves by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Matthew 6:7

“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Acts 19:26

And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.

Romans 1:21

for although 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 minds were darkened.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,