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Want to know what the Bible says about Polytheism? Here are 21 Bible verses about Polytheism 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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Exodus 20:4-5 NIV
4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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John 1:1 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Isaiah 44:6 NIV
“This is what the Lord says—
    Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
    apart from me there is no God.
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Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Isaiah 43:10 NIV
“You are my witnesses, ” declares the Lord,
    “and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
    and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
    nor will there be one after me.
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1 Corinthians 10:20 NIV
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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Genesis 31:19 NIV
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
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Genesis 35:2 NIV
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes.
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Genesis 35:4 NIV
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem.
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Joshua 24:2 NIV
Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.
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Joshua 24:23 NIV
“Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
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Judges 2:13 NIV
because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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Judges 3:7 NIV
The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
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Judges 10:16 NIV
Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the Lord. And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.
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Judges 17:5 NIV
Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest.
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Jeremiah 2:28 NIV
Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?
    Let them come if they can save you
    when you are in trouble!
For you, Judah, have as many gods
    as you have towns.
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Jeremiah 11:13 NIV
You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
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Daniel 4:8 NIV
Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)
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