Deuteronomy 16:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:1 : 1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
  • Exod 20:4 : 4 You shall not make for yourself any 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.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Jer 44:4 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.
  • Zech 8:17 : 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.
  • Rev 2:6 : 6 But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
  • Rev 2:15 : 15 Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 26:1
    84%

    1 You shall make no idols nor carved image, neither set up a standing image, nor shall you set up any image of stone in your land to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 16:21
    83%

    21 You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.

  • Exod 20:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

    4 You shall not make for yourself any 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.

    5 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 upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.

  • Deut 5:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7 You shall have no other gods before me.

    8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

    9 You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

  • Deut 12:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

    4 You shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:17
    79%

    17 You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Exod 23:24
    78%

    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25 The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

    26 Neither shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you become a cursed thing like it: but you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

  • Ps 81:9
    77%

    9 There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 4:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

    16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

  • Deut 4:23
    77%

    23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.

  • Lev 19:4
    76%

    4 Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

    14 For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

  • Deut 6:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people who are all around you;

    15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from the face of the earth.

  • Exod 23:32
    76%

    32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Deut 12:31
    75%

    31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Exod 20:23
    75%

    23 You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

  • Mic 5:13
    75%

    13 Your carved images also will I cut off, and your sacred pillars from the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images.

  • Deut 4:28
    73%

    28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Deut 17:1
    73%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 27:15
    73%

    15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

  • Lev 18:21
    73%

    21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    73%

    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Josh 23:7
    72%

    7 That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:

  • Deut 4:25
    72%

    25 When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    72%

    35 The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10
    72%

    10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

  • Num 33:52
    72%

    52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:

  • Exod 20:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if you use your tool on it, you have profaned it.

    26 Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed on it.

  • Deut 20:18
    72%

    18 That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

  • Deut 14:3
    72%

    3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.

  • Jer 25:6
    72%

    6 And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.'

  • Deut 18:9
    71%

    9 When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 7:5
    71%

    5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

  • Deut 27:5
    71%

    5 And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up any iron tool upon them.

  • Exod 22:20
    71%

    20 He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed.

  • Deut 29:17
    71%

    17 And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • Lev 26:30
    71%

    30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.