Wisdom 3:11
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11 For those who despise wisdom and instruction are doomed.(A)
Vain is their hope, fruitless their labors,
and worthless their works.(B)
Wisdom 15:5
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5 the sight of which arouses yearning in a fool,
till he longs for the inanimate form of a dead image.
Wisdom 15:17
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17 he is mortal, and what he makes with lawless hands is dead.
For he is better than the things he worships;
he at least lives, but never his idols.
Deuteronomy 4:25-28
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God’s Fidelity and Love. 25 (A)When you have children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, should you then act corruptly by fashioning an idol in the form of anything, and by this evil done in his sight provoke the Lord, your God, 26 I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.(B) 27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. 28 There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.(C)
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Deuteronomy 7:25
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25 (A)The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.(B)
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Deuteronomy 27:15
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15 [a]“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol,(A) an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”
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- 27:15–26 The ceremony described here reflects the structure of covenant. The people assent to the directives their covenant Lord sets forth; their “Amen” ratifies the proscription of idolatry, injustice, incest, murder, and infidelity in general. Thus the “love” of the Lord which is at the heart of Israel’s existence as his covenant people (6:4–5) is spelled out in terms of particular actions. The “Amen” is an acceptance of the curses or sanctions entailed by breaking faith with the Lord. Cf. 30:15–20, a concise statement of covenant theology.
Psalm 115:4
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Hosea 14:4
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4 [a]Assyria will not save us,
nor will we mount horses;(A)
We will never again say, ‘Our god,’
to the work of our hands;
for in you the orphan finds compassion.”(B)
Acts 17:29
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29 Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.(A)
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