Deuteronomy 4:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,”
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“that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
King James Version · Public Domain“lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female--”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 4:16 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Exodus 32:7Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
- Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:8And what nation is great enough to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
- Deuteronomy 4:23Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:25After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
- Deuteronomy 5:8You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Deuteronomy 16:22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Psalms 106:19At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
- Isaiah 40:18To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?
- Isaiah 44:13The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
- Ezekiel 8:10So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
- Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
- Acts 20:4Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.
- Romans 1:22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,
- 1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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