What Does the Bible Say About Painted Images?

Exodus 20:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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.

Numbers 21:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.

2 Kings 18:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).

Exodus 20:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

John 4:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Leviticus 26:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 26:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 20:3-5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or 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. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Revelation 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

1 John 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

1 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I urge you, then, be imitators of me.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Acts 17:29-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 12:44-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.

John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 1:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.

Luke 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

Mark 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Daniel 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.

Ezekiel 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

Isaiah 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Song of Solomon 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

Psalm 135:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.

2 Chronicles 3:7-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors—and he carved cherubim on the walls. And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold. The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold. The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub; ...

1 Chronicles 28:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord. “All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the Lord, all the work to be done according to the plan.”

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

1 Kings 8:6-66 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord, ...

1 Kings 7:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house. He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row. There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers. All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers. ...

Exodus 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

Exodus 25:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.

Exodus 25:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.

Exodus 25:18-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

46 Bible Verses about Painted Images

Exodus 20:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 21:8-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 18:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 20:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 4:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 26:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 26:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Revelation 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:44-45 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 135:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 3:7-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 28:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 8:6-66 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 25:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Exodus 20:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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