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Exodus 20:3 ESV / 245 helpful votes “You shall have no other gods before me.Exodus 20:2-6 ESV / 245 helpful votes “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.1 Corinthians 10:20 ESV / 161 helpful votes No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.Exodus 20:4-6 ESV / 135 helpful votes “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.Matthew 6:21 ESV / 88 helpful votes For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Deuteronomy 12:30-31 ESV / 82 helpful votes Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.1 Corinthians 10:14 ESV / 77 helpful votes Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.Mark 7:9 ESV / 74 helpful votes And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!Exodus 34:14 ESV / 72 helpful votes (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),Mark 7:7 ESV / 70 helpful votes In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’Deuteronomy 13:1-18 ESV / 67 helpful votes “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. …Romans 8:7 ESV / 64 helpful votes For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.Luke 6:46 ESV / 62 helpful votes “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
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