Bible Verses About Images

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 makers of graven images vain.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Brief direct Bible warning

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

Direct Bible statement on idols as human work

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.

Core commandment background

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

Directly shames image worshipers

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.

Destroying pagan images background

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.

Command against idols and standing 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:

Another direct command against images

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Explains the image as a mute idol

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.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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.

Prophetic anti-idol background

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.

Describes making an image and praying to it

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

Says the land is full of idols made by hands.

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.

Says people trust carved idols as gods

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

Classic idol text about silver and gold.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

Israel's calf worship as an example.

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

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.

Pauline background for image worship

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.

Pauline language about images made by man

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.

Rachel's household images are not a doctrinal image/worship text.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Resurrection image passage

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

Part of the no-graven-image command, but fragmentary and incomplete.

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

Fragmentary command text.

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.

Odd OT image command, not direct Christian teaching

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

Fragmentary command text.