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Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?( But they were not gods!) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
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Exodus 20:4-5
Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
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Isaiah 40:18-25
With whom will you compare God? What likeness will you set up for comparison with him?An idol?— something that a smelter casts and a metalworker plates with gold and makes silver chains for?A poor person contributes wood for a pedestal that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not fall over.Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not considered the foundations of the earth?God is enthroned above the circle of the earth; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth and spreads them out like a tent to live in.He reduces princes to nothing and makes judges of the earth like a wasteland.They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem hardly takes root in the ground when he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.“ To whom will you compare me, or who is my equal?” asks the Holy One.
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Romans 1:22-23
Claiming to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
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Psalms 89:17
For you are their magnificent strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.