Exodus 20:3

The Ten Commandments

² I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
³ Do not have other gods besides Me.
⁴ Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

No Other Gods

Other Gods

No

Deuteronomy 6:14

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

Jeremiah 25:6

Do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time and time again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: Turn, each one from his evil way of life, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not pay attention or obey Me.

Deuteronomy 5:7

Do not have other gods besides Me.

Exodus 15:11

Lord, who is like You among the gods?
Who is like You, glorious in holiness,
revered with praises, performing wonders?

Deuteronomy 6:5

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Psalm 81:9

There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.

Exodus 20:23

You must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.

Joshua 24:18-24

The Lord drove out before us all the peoples, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will worship the Lord, because He is our God.”

2 Kings 17:29-35

But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.

Psalm 29:2

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due His name;
worship Yahweh
in the splendor of His holiness.

Psalm 73:25

Who do I have in heaven but You?
And I desire nothing on earth but You.

Isaiah 26:4

Trust in the Lord forever,
because in Yah, the Lord, is an everlasting rock!

Isaiah 43:10

“You are My witnesses”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe Me
and understand that I am He.
No god was formed before Me,
and there will be none after Me.

Isaiah 44:8

Do not be startled or afraid.
Have I not told you and declared it long ago?
You are my witnesses!
Is there any God but Me?
There is no other Rock; I do not know any.

Isaiah 45:21-22

Speak up and present your case—
yes, let them take counsel together.
Who predicted this long ago?
Who announced it from ancient times?
Was it not I, Yahweh?
There is no other God but Me,
a righteous God and Savior;
there is no one except Me.

Isaiah 46:9

Remember what happened long ago,
for I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and no one is like Me.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus told him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written:

Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only Him.”

1 Corinthians 8:4

About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

1 Corinthians 8:6

yet for us there is one God, the Father.
All things are from Him,
and we exist for Him.
And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ.
All things are through Him,
and we exist through Him.

Ephesians 5:5

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind.

1 John 5:20-21

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Revelation 22:9

But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow slave with you, your brothers the prophets, and those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”