¹⁶ So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

²⁹ If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

⁸ You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

²³ Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;

⁴ You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

⁵ You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

⁴ And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.

⁵ But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

²⁴ God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

¹⁸ Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

¹⁹ They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.

²⁰ And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

²⁵ If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

⁸ And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

⁹ Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;