Bible Verses About Art And Images

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Primary command against graven images.

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Parallel command against graven images.

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

Curses the maker of a graven or molten image.

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

Forbids idols and standing images.

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

Burn and reject graven images.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Classic short line about idols as human-made.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

Prophetic rejection of carved idols.

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.

New Testament line about images replacing God.

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

Says molded images are wind and confusion.

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Prophetic line that founders are confounded by idols.

Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Repeats the no-breath line used against idols.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Calls graven-image makers vain and their work unprofitable.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Short supporting line on idols as human work.

Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Says people bow to the work of their hands.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Shows the craft process behind the idol.

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

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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.

Says God is not like an image formed by human art

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

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Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

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And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

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Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

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And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

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