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1 Peter 4 3
For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non- Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
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1 Thessalonians 1 9
For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
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Psalms 115:5
They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
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Ephesians 2:11-12
Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“ uncircumcision” by the so- called“ circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
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Habakkuk 2:18-19
What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?The one who says to wood,‘ Wake up!’ is as good as dead– he who says to speechless stone,‘ Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.
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1 Corinthians 6 11
Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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Galatians 4:8
Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.
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Jeremiah 10:5
Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”
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Psalms 115:7
hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.
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Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
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Matthew 15:14
Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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Isaiah 46:7
They put it on their shoulder and carry it; they put it in its place and it just stands there; it does not move from its place. Even when someone cries out to it, it does not reply; it does not deliver him from his distress.
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Ephesians 4:17-18
So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
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Psalms 135:16
They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
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1 Peter 1 18
You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,