Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
During this time man again turned from God and pursued a form of idolatry that brought forth God's judgements upon them.
Indeed, it is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed in any longer.
He supports the local team with a fever that borders in idolatry.
Paul with idolatry, and it was its habitual ally not only amongst the Gauls but throughout the pagan world.
After a long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry.
You may call it your "personal belief," but God calls it idolatry.
It's simply the mental acknowledgement of the existence of God and that God is one, that is, the rejection of idolatry and polytheism and the idea that God is one.
King Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon, a kingdom renowned for its idolatry and witchcraft and occult arts.
Call it what you like, but it was blatant idolatry.
There is also the tradition that Satan refused to bow to Adam as a result of his exclusive love of God, and felt that bowing to humankind was a form of idolatry.
Faith is not an idolatry, nor an idolatry, but an unscrupulous pursuit, but a kind of unscrupulous trust, a kind of unflunking absoluteness, a guardian of no retreat.
Perhaps that first concert, attended by a teenage girl experiencing her first feverish flushes of rock star idolatry, was too high a bar to match.
Speaking to Saul who had been king of Israel Samuel the prophet said; For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
