Deuteronomy 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:4-5 : 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;
  • Deut 4:23 : 23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Deut 5:8 : 8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
  • Acts 20:4-5 : 4 And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia. 5 But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.
  • Rom 1:22-24 : 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold. 20 And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?
  • John 4:24 : 24 God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
  • Deut 4:25 : 25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:
  • Deut 4:8-9 : 8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today? 9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:15
    84%

    15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

  • Exod 20:3-4
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    84%

    3 You are to have no other gods but me.

    4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Deut 4:23
    83%

    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 5:7-8
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    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

    8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Deut 4:17-19
    3 verses
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    17 Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

    18 Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.

    19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    79%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Lev 26:1
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    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 16:21-22
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    77%

    21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

    22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

  • Lev 19:4
    77%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 27:15
    75%

    15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    74%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Exod 20:23
    73%

    23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

  • Deut 4:28
    73%

    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Rom 1:23
    73%

    23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

  • Isa 40:18
    72%

    18 Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    72%

    9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • Deut 6:14
    72%

    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Lev 19:27-28
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    27 The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 29:17
    72%

    17 And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Ezek 16:17
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    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

  • Isa 30:22
    71%

    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Deut 4:12
    71%

    12 And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

  • Mic 5:13
    71%

    13 I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Lev 18:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Num 33:52
    71%

    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Exod 23:24
    70%

    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Exod 34:13
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    13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

  • Deut 4:2
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    2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

  • Gen 1:27
    70%

    27 And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

  • Exod 25:40
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    40 And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.

  • Jer 16:20
    70%

    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Prov 6:25
    70%

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Ezek 20:7
    70%

    7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 20:18
    70%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.