idols / idolatry / idolaterAn idol is an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship or adoration is addressed. Idolatry is the worship given to such images. Pagodas, shrines, and temples are often built in honor of such false deities; people that take things or make things to represent a god and then worship them as gods. DTP Scripture forbids disciples to worship idols. See the Ten Commandments, Ex 20:1-15. See the life of Solomon, 1 Kings 11:1-8. See the ways of man, Romans 1:21-25.Turn ye not unto idols, nor make ... molten gods: Lev 19:4make you no idols nor graven image, Lev 26:1stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. 1 Sam 15:23hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 2 Kin 21:11the gods of the people are idols: 1 Chr 16:26 (Ps 96:5)cut down all the idols throughout all the land 2 Chr 34:7Their land also is full of idols; they worship Isa 2:8in that day every man shall cast away his idols Isa 31:7with idols under every green tree, Isa 57:5that setteth up his idols in his heart, Ezek 14:4Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; Ezek 14:6trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab 2:18abstain from pollutions of idols, Acts 15:20, 29 (21:25)when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Acts 17:16fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, 1 Cor 5:11my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. 1 Cor 10:14carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye 1 Cor 12:2Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, Gal 5:20nor covetous man, who is an idolater, Eph 5:5and covetousness, which is idolatry. Col 3:5how ye turned to God from idols to serve 1 Thes 1:9children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
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