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Bible Verses About Punishment for Idolatry
Find Bible verses about punishment for idolatry — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about punishment for idolatry?
The Bible addresses punishment for idolatry with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Genesis 4:13
“Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
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1 Corinthians 10:14
“Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.”
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Hebrews 10:29
“How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?”
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Matthew 25:46
“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."”
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Matthew 24:51
“and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.”
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Proverbs 16:22
“Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.”
2 Peter 2:9
“the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;”
Matthew 13:42
“and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:50
“and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."”
Genesis 3:14
“Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of...”
Deuteronomy 5:8
“"You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”
1 Kings 14:9
“but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:”
Psalms 81:9
“There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.”
Jonah 2:8
“Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
1 Samuel 15:23
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king."”
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Deuteronomy 31:18 — “I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they a...”
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