Bible Verses About Graven Images
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for graven images, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 63,933 votes, led by Exodus 20:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Graven Images
Exodus 20:42,166 votes
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Leviticus 26:11,918 votes
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
Isaiah 42:81,590 votes
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Acts 17:291,367 votes
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Exodus 20:4-51,350 votes
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Exodus 20:1-261,173 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
Isaiah 44:151,172 votes
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Exodus 20:31,043 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 4:16-191,021 votes
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Genesis 1:261,010 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Exodus 20:5994 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Deuteronomy 4:16947 votes
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Romans 11:4916 votes
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
2 Chronicles 3:5-7899 votes
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
Colossians 3:5865 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Psalms 97:7852 votes
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Habakkuk 2:18830 votes
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Psalms 115:4-8804 votes
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Nahum 1:14748 votes
And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Deuteronomy 27:15712 votes
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Exodus 20:4-6711 votes
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
Revelation 1:1692 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Deuteronomy 7:25682 votes
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 5:8678 votes
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Judges 17:4678 votes
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
What does the Bible say about graven images?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:4 on the subject of graven images. Across 63,933 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 26:1, Isaiah 42:8, Acts 17:29. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.