"Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to suppose that Deity (the Godhead) is like gold or silver or stone, [of the nature of] a representation by human art and imagination, or anything constructed or invented.." (Acts 17:29 AMPC).
"The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands." (Psalm 135:15).
"And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man ..." (Romans 1:23 ESV).
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
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: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God..." (Exodus 20:3-5).
"All who make idols are nothing,
and the things they treasure are worthless.
Those who would speak up for them are blind;
they are ignorant, to their own shame.
Who shapes a god and casts an idol,
which can profit nothing?
People who do that will be put to shame;
such craftsmen are only human beings.
Let them all come together and take their stand;
they will be brought down to terror and shame." (Isaiah 44:9-11 NIV).
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry” (1 Corinthians 10:14).
“Little children, keep yourselves from idols” (1 John 5:21).
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).
Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made. (Isaiah 2:8).
In idolatry, it was common for them to kiss their idols.
"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."
