Bible Verses About Homer And Pagan Poetry

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Direct Bible passage about Scripture for instruction.

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

Psalm against idols, useful background for the theme.

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Psalm contrasting false gods with the Lord as creator.

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

Psalm shaming idol worshipers.

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

Same idol warning in repeated form.

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

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And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

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Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

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They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

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

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And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Warns people will turn to fables instead of truth.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

General pagan-idol warning that fits the broader contrast.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

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Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

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Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:

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And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

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Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Warns against fables that distract from faith.

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

General no-gods text that supports the anti-idol frame.

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

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And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

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And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

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I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

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The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

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