Leviticus 19:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.”
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“Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Leviticus 19:4 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.
- 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 20:23You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
- Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Exodus 34:17You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
- Leviticus 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
- Leviticus 19:25But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD your God.
- Leviticus 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:16that 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,
- Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
- 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!’
- 1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- 2 Chronicles 28:2Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.
- Psalms 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Haggai 2:18Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
- 1 Corinthians 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- 1 John 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
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