Deuteronomy 4:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 20:4-5 : 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.
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
  • Deut 4:23 : 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.
  • Deut 5:8 : 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:
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.
  • Acts 20:4-5 : 4 And Sopater of Berea accompanied him to Asia; and Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. 5 These men, going ahead, waited for us at Troas.
  • Rom 1:22-24 : 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
  • John 4:24 : 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
  • Deut 4:25 : 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:
  • Deut 4:8-9 : 8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:15
    84%

    15Take 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:

  • Exod 20:3-4
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    84%

    3You shall have no other gods before Me.

    4You 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 4:23
    83%

    23Take 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.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    82%

    7You shall have no other gods before me.

    8You 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:

  • Deut 4:17-19
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    17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

    18The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

    19And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When 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:

  • Exod 34:15-17
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    15Lest 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.

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

    17You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

  • Lev 26:1
    79%

    1You 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 16:21-22
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    77%

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

    22Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

  • Lev 19:4
    77%

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

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

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

  • Deut 27:15
    75%

    15Cursed 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.

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25The 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.

    26Neither 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.

  • Exod 20:23
    73%

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

  • Deut 4:28
    73%

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

  • Rom 1:23
    73%

    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

  • Isa 40:18
    72%

    18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    72%

    9Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

    10Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Deut 6:14
    72%

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

  • Lev 19:27-28
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    27You shall not shave around the corners of your heads, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard.

    28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the LORD.

  • Deut 29:17
    72%

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

  • Ezek 16:17
    72%

    17You have also taken your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them,

  • Isa 30:22
    71%

    22You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

  • Deut 4:12
    71%

    12And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; only you heard a voice.

  • Mic 5:13
    71%

    13Your 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.

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Lev 18:19-21
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    71%

    19Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

    20Moreover, you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

    21And 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.

  • Num 33:52
    71%

    52then 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:

  • Isa 17:8
    71%

    8And 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.

  • Exod 23:24
    70%

    24You 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.

  • Exod 34:13
    70%

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

  • Deut 4:2
    70%

    2You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

  • Gen 1:27
    70%

    27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  • Exod 25:40
    70%

    40And see that you make them according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.

  • Jer 16:20
    70%

    20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Prov 6:25
    70%

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Ezek 20:7
    70%

    7Then I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 20:18
    70%

    18That 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.