Bible Verses About Idolatry
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for idolatry, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 14,261 votes, led by Exodus 20:3-6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Idolatry
Exodus 20:3-6984 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
1 John 5:21684 votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Colossians 3:5629 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Jonah 2:8587 votes
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Isaiah 44:9-20553 votes
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Leviticus 19:4498 votes
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
1 Corinthians 10:14485 votes
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Galatians 5:19-21428 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Psalms 16:4299 votes
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Psalms 135:15-18279 votes
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Revelation 9:20228 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:
Exodus 20:1-8217 votes
And God spake all these words, saying,
1 Samuel 15:23201 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.
Jeremiah 11:12199 votes
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Deuteronomy 12:32-13:18187 votes
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Isaiah 45:20175 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.
Galatians 4:8168 votes
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
1 Corinthians 10:7152 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 23:13145 votes
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
Deuteronomy 27:15138 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.
Judges 10:14133 votes
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
Acts 17:29133 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.
Jeremiah 7:18127 votes
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Revelation 21:8126 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 1:22-25125 votes
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
What does the Bible say about idolatry?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:3-6 on the subject of idolatry. Across 14,261 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 5:21, Colossians 3:5, Jonah 2:8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.