Leviticus 19:4

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:1 : 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.
  • Exod 20:23 : 23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
  • Exod 34:17 : 17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
  • Exod 20:3-5 : 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: 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;
  • Deut 27:15 : 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.
  • 1 John 5:21 : 21 My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
  • 1 Cor 10:14 : 14 For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.
  • Ps 96:5 : 5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
  • Ps 115:4-7 : 4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not; 6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell; 7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.
  • Exod 32:4 : 4 And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Hag 2:18 : 18 And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 26:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    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.

    2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 34:17
    84%

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Lev 19:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

    3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:4
    82%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Exod 20:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    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:

    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 20:23
    80%

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

  • Lev 18:2
    80%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 5:6-9
    4 verses
    80%

    6 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

    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:

    9 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;

  • Lev 19:30-32
    3 verses
    80%

    30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

    31 Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

    32 Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

  • Deut 6:14
    80%

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

  • Ezek 20:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

    19 I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

  • Deut 4:23
    79%

    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.

  • Ezek 20:7
    79%

    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.

  • Ps 81:9
    78%

    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    78%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Exod 34:14-15
    2 verses
    78%

    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    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,

  • Jer 25:6
    77%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Lev 18:21
    77%

    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.

  • Deut 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    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:

    16 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,

  • Lev 20:7
    77%

    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 16:22
    76%

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

  • Lev 19:12
    76%

    12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 18:30
    76%

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • Lev 22:33
    76%

    33 Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 23:24
    76%

    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.

  • Deut 4:28
    75%

    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.

  • Ezek 20:39
    75%

    39 As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.

  • Lev 19:28
    75%

    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.

  • Hos 13:4
    75%

    4 But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.

  • Deut 4:25
    75%

    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:

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    75%

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Deut 29:17
    75%

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

  • Num 15:41
    75%

    41 I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be your God: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 7:25
    75%

    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:

  • Lev 22:31
    75%

    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 32:8
    75%

    8 Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Lev 19:14
    74%

    14 Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 25:17
    74%

    17 And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.