Associated with: An image of a god; an object of worship; an object of love, admiration or honour in an extreme degree; an impostor; an image or semblance; a figure or effigy. (Chambers Dictionary)
Summary:
...It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
...Jesus saith..., I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father (which is in heaven), but by me. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
...Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
...Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion (Babylon). They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. These nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
...Keep yourselves from idols: For man is the image and glory of God. It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Further reading:
(1) I (Paul) am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed from
faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for
God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew
God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made
like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts,
and creeping things, Rom0116-23.
(2) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own
bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a
lie, and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against
nature: And likewise
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another; men with men working that which
is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their
error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which
are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient
to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural
affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of
God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not
only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them, Rom0124-32.
(3) Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not, Isa0208,09.
(4) They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols, Isa4516.
(5) Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion (MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, Rev1705,06), Isa4129.
(6) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, 1Tm0205,06. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved, Act0412.
(7) Jesus saith, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father (which is in heaven, Mat2309) Jhn1406.
(8) For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father (which is in heaven, Mat2309), Eph0218.
(9) Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, Phl0405,06.
(10) Verily, verily, I (Jesus) say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you, Jhn1623.
(11) I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images, Isa4208.
(12) Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God, Pss5023.
(13) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring
of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold,
or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times
of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent, Act1729,30.
(14) Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound, iSA3022-26.
(15) But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens, Jer1010,11.
(16) But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day, 2Kg1739-41.
(17) Little children, keep yourselves from idols, 1Jn0521.
(18) For man is the image and glory of God, 1Co1107.
(19) It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve, Luk0408.
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