Ídolos
A Bíblia condena a idolatria com veemência. Um ídolo é qualquer coisa que ocupa o lugar de Deus no coração. Os cristãos são chamados a guardar-se dos ídolos e servir ao Deus vivo.
Guardai-vos dos ídolos
Filhinhos, guardai-vos dos ídolos. A cobiça é idolatria. Tudo que ocupa o trono de Deus no coração é um ídolo.
My little sons, keep ye you from maumets [or from simulacra]. My little sons, keep away from idols. [Amen.]
Therefore slay ye your members, which be on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lechery, evil covetousness, and avarice, which is service of maumets [or simulacra];
For the root of all evils is covetousness, which some men coveting erred from the faith, and besetted them with many sorrows.
ye shall not make gods of silver, neither ye shall make to you gods of gold.
Forsooth I am thy Lord God from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not know God, except me, and no saviour is, except me.
O único Deus verdadeiro
O Senhor é Deus nos céus e na terra — não há outro. Escolham hoje a quem servir, mas eu e a minha casa serviremos ao Senhor.
Therefore know thou today, and think in thine heart, that the Lord himself is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath, and none other is.
Pursue [or follow] ye your Lord God, and dread ye him; keep ye his commandments, and hear ye his voice; ye shall serve him, and ye shall cleave to him.
But if it seemeth evil to you, that ye serve the Lord, choosing is given to you; choose ye to you today that, that pleaseth, whom ye owe most to serve; whether to gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, whether to the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; forsooth I, and mine house, shall serve the Lord.
Whether ye know not, that wicked men shall not wield the kingdom of God? Do not ye err; neither lechers, neither men that serve maumets [or idols], neither adulterers, neither lechers against kind, neither they that do lechery with men,
neither thieves, neither avaricious [or covetous] men, neither men full of drunkenness, neither cursers, neither raveners, shall wield the kingdom of God.
Vencer a idolatria
Não tenhas comunhão com as obras das trevas. Revesti-vos da armadura de Deus para resistir às ciladas do diabo.
And do not ye commune to unfruiteous works of darknesses; but more rather reprove ye [them].
For what things be done of them in privy, it is foul, yea, to speak.
Clothe you with the armour of God, that ye may stand against the ambushings, [or assailings], of the devil.
I pray not, that thou take them away from the world, but that thou keep them from evil.
Each vessel which is made against thee, shall not be addressed; and in the doom thou shalt deem each tongue against-standing thee. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and the rightfulness [or rightwiseness] of them at me, saith the Lord.
Do not thou be overcome of evil, but overcome thou evil by good.
Turn thou away from evil, and do good; seek thou peace, and perfectly pursue thou it.
But the prick of death is sin; and the virtue of sin is the law.