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Want to know what the Bible says about Idols? Here are 73 Bible verses about Idols 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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2 Kings 19:18 NIV
They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.
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Acts 15:29 NIV
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
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Exodus 23:13 NIV
“Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
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Psalm 115:4-7 NIV
4 But their idols are silver and gold,
    made by human hands.
5 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
    eyes, but cannot see.
6 They have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but cannot smell.
7 They have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but cannot walk,
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
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Isaiah 40:19 NIV
As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,
    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
    and fashions silver chains for it.
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Isaiah 42:8 NIV
“I am the Lord; that is my name!
    I will not yield my glory to another
    or my praise to idols.
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Isaiah 31:7 NIV
For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.
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Psalm 96:5 NIV
For all the gods of the nations are idols,
    but the Lord made the heavens.
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Isaiah 44:17 NIV
From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
    he bows down to it and worships.
He prays to it and says,
    “Save me! You are my god!”
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Isaiah 2:20 NIV
In that day people will throw away
    to the moles and bats
their idols of silver and idols of gold,
    which they made to worship.
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Luke 9:25 NIV
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
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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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Luke 12:34 NIV
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Job 22:22-24 NIV
22 Accept instruction from his mouth
    and lay up his words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:
    If you remove wickedness far from your tent
24 and assign your nuggets to the dust,
    your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
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Exodus 32:4 NIV
He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”
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1 Peter 4:3 NIV
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
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Psalm 97:7 NIV
All who worship images are put to shame,
    those who boast in idols
    worship him, all you gods!
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Psalm 16:4 NIV
Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names on my lips.
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Hosea 8:4 NIV
They set up kings without my consent;
    they choose princes without my approval.
With their silver and gold
    they make idols for themselves
    to their own destruction.
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