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• IdolBible

  An idol is an image of a deity made to be worshiped in place of God or to represent God, or any object treated in that way. Scripture forbids making and worshiping idols, beginning with the Ten Commandments.

• Jeremiah 8Bible

  Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.

• 1 Corinthians 10Bible

  First Corinthians 10 warns against idolatry, holding up the failures of Israel in the wilderness as an example. It then declares that believers cannot partake of both the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils, and on the question of food offered to idols, it sets forth the conscience of one's neighbor and the glory of God as the guiding standards.

• Ancestral Rites and Memorial ServicesControversies

  The question of whether ancestral rites should be forbidden as idolatry or regarded as a cultural expression of filial piety. Korean Protestant churches have prohibited ancestral rites and have instead held memorial services.

• Generational Curse TheoryControversies

  Generational curse theory is the teaching that curses pass down to descendants because of their ancestors' sins or idolatry and must therefore be broken through prayer. Several Korean denominations have judged it unbiblical.

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Verses in the King James Version 5, showing 5

• 1 Samuel 15:23Explained

  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

• Acts 17:16

  Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

• 1 Corinthians 10:14

  Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

• Galatians 5:20Explained

  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

• Colossians 3:5

  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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