The document discusses idolatry and how people worship idols instead of God. It provides several biblical examples of when people turned away from God to worship other gods and idols. This included making idols of calves and an Asherah tree and passing children through fire as sacrifices to other gods. It warns against clinging to idols and falling down before blocks of wood instead of worshipping the one true God.

2. 1 Then God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery. 3“You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not
make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or
on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 “You shall not
worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and
the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing
lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My
commandments.
- Exodus 20:1-6 NASB
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3. 15 They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with
their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they
followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which
surrounded them, concerning which the LORD had commanded them
not to do like them. 16 They forsook all the commandments of the
LORD their God and made for themselves molten images, even two
calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven
and served Baal. 17 Then they made their sons and their daughters
pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and
sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him. 18
So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from His
sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah.
- 2 Kings 17:15-18 NASB
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4. No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have
burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I
roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I
fall down before a block of wood!”
- Isaiah 44:19 NASB
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5. Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was being
provoked within him as he was observing the city full of idols.
- Acts 17:16 NASB
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8. 34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the
Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, a
lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 “Teacher, which is the
great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “ ‘YOU
SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND
WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ 38 “This is the
great and foremost commandment.
- Matthew 22:34-38 NASB
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9. 41 And He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how
the people were putting money into the treasury; and many rich people
were putting in large sums. 42 A poor widow came and put in two small
copper coins, which amount to a cent. 43 Calling His disciples to Him,
He said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than
all the contributors to the treasury; 44 for they all put in out of their
surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to
live on.”
- Mark 12:41-44 NASB
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10. 29 “If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from
you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for
your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 “If your right hand makes
you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to
lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into
hell.
- Matthew 5:29-30 NASB
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11. Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 1 John 2:15 NASB
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