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Want to know what the Bible says about Idol Worship? Here are 124 Bible verses about Idol Worship from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Hosea 4:12 NIV
My people consult a wooden idol,
    and a diviner’s rod speaks to them.
A spirit of prostitution leads them astray;
    they are unfaithful to their God.
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2 Kings 23:24 NIV
Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:5 NIV
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater —has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Isaiah 29:11-14 NIV
11 For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I can’t; it is sealed.” 12 Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, “Read this, please,” they will answer, “I don’t know how to read.”
13 The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
14 Therefore once more I will astound these people
    with wonder upon wonder;
the wisdom of the wise will perish,
    the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.
14
Deuteronomy 8:19 NIV
If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
14
Matthew 6:33 NIV
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Deuteronomy 5:7 NIV
“You shall have no other gods before me.
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Ezekiel 36:18 NIV
So I poured out my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.
13
1 Kings 18:28 NIV
So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.
13
Genesis 31:19 NIV
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
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