Bible Verses About Idols
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for idols, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,993 votes, led by Exodus 20:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Idols
Exodus 20:3180 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exodus 20:4135 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:
1 John 5:21131 votes
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Leviticus 26:1124 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.
Psalms 135:15-17123 votes
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Psalms 115:4-898 votes
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Isaiah 44:9-1295 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.
Hebrews 13:588 votes
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
1 Corinthians 10:1484 votes
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Jonah 2:878 votes
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Habakkuk 2:1878 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?
Leviticus 19:467 votes
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Isaiah 44:9-2066 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.
Isaiah 37:1959 votes
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Isaiah 30:2256 votes
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Jeremiah 10:3-556 votes
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Colossians 3:553 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Romans 1:21-2350 votes
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1 Chronicles 16:2644 votes
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
Isaiah 2:843 votes
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Romans 1:22-2342 votes
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Thessalonians 1:941 votes
For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Exodus 20:3-438 votes
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Ezekiel 20:3238 votes
And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
Acts 17:2938 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.
What does the Bible say about idols?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:3 on the subject of idols. Across 2,993 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 20:4, 1 John 5:21, Leviticus 26:1. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.