Deuteronomy 32:17
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17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.(A)
2 Chronicles 13:9
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9 Didn’t you banish the priests of Yahweh, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?(A) Whoever comes to ordain himself(B) with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest(C) of what are not gods.(D)
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Jeremiah 2:11
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11 Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?(A)
(But they were not gods!(B))
Yet My people have exchanged their[a] Glory
for useless idols.(C)
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:11 Ancient Jewish tradition reads My
Jeremiah 5:7
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7 Why should I forgive you?
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.(A)
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;(B)
they gashed themselves(C) at the[a] prostitute’s house.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:7 Or adultery and trooped to the, or adultery and lodged at the; Hb obscure
Jeremiah 16:20
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20 Can one make gods for himself?
But they are not gods.(A)
Hosea 8:6
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6 For this thing is from Israel—
a craftsman made it,(A) and it is not God.
The calf of Samaria will be smashed to bits!
Acts 19:26
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26 You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!(A)
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Galatians 4:8
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Paul’s Concern for the Galatians
8 But in the past, when you didn’t know God,(A) you were enslaved to things[a] that by nature are not gods.
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- Galatians 4:8 Or beings
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