Bible Verses About Idol Worship
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for idol worship, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 54,939 votes, led by 1 John 5:21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Idol Worship
1 John 5:211,366 votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
1 Corinthians 10:141,283 votes
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Colossians 3:51,206 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Leviticus 26:11,160 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.
Leviticus 19:4995 votes
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 20:1-15955 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
Psalms 115:4-8903 votes
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Exodus 20:3894 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:3-6838 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Galatians 5:19-21808 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Exodus 20:5805 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;
Romans 1:25776 votes
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
John 4:23753 votes
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Revelation 9:20750 votes
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 9:20-21716 votes
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
1 Corinthians 10:20-21690 votes
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
Jonah 2:8684 votes
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Isaiah 44:6-20672 votes
Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
1 Samuel 15:23669 votes
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Matthew 4:8-10658 votes
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
Isaiah 45:20652 votes
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
1 Corinthians 10:7627 votes
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Exodus 20:1-10624 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
Isaiah 46:5617 votes
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
Colossians 2:18613 votes
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
What does the Bible say about idol worship?
Readers most often cite 1 John 5:21 on the subject of idol worship. Across 54,939 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 10:14, Colossians 3:5, Leviticus 26:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.