Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: