Deuteronomy 4:16
I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
Additional Resources
Referenced Verses
- Exod 20:4-5 : 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
- Exod 32:7 : 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
- Deut 4:23 : 23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.
- Deut 5:8 : 8 You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Acts 17:29 : 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.
- Acts 20:4-5 : 4 Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, as well as Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia. 5 These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.
- Rom 1:22-24 : 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
- 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
- Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
- Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
- John 4:24 : 24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
- Deut 4:25 : 25 Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,
- Deut 4:8-9 : 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today? 9 Reminder of the Horeb Covenant Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- 84%
15The Nature of Israel’s God Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the LORD spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.
- Exod 20:3-42 verses84%
3“You shall have no other gods before me.
4“You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.
- 83%
23Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.
- Deut 5:7-82 verses82%
7You must not have any other gods besides me.
8You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Deut 4:17-193 verses82%
17any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,
18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.
19When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
- 80%
25Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the LORD your God that enrage him,
- Exod 34:15-173 verses79%
15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;
16and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
17You must not make yourselves molten gods.
- 79%
1Exhortation to Obedience“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the LORD your God.
- Deut 16:21-222 verses77%
21Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.
22You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.
- 77%
4Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.
- 75%
4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.
- 75%
15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image– something abhorrent to the LORD, the work of the craftsman– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
- Deut 7:25-262 verses74%
25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.
- 73%
23You must not make gods of silver alongside me, nor make gods of gold for yourselves.
- 73%
28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
- 73%
23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
- 72%
18To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?
- Isa 44:9-102 verses72%
9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?
- 72%
14You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
- Lev 19:27-282 verses72%
27You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.
28You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the LORD.
- 72%
17You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)
- 72%
17You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.
- 71%
22You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them,“Get out!”
- 71%
12Then the LORD spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything– only a voice was heard.
- 71%
13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
- 71%
24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
- Lev 18:19-213 verses71%
19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!
- 71%
52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
- 71%
8They will no longer trust in the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made.
- 70%
24“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
- 70%
13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
- 70%
2Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am delivering to you.
- 70%
27God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
- 70%
40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
- 70%
20Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
- 70%
25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
- 70%
7I said to them,“Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.”
- 70%
18so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.