No other nation, no matter how great, has laws so just as those that I have taught you today.

Be on your guard! Make certain that you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Tell your children and your grandchildren

"Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth.

Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the LORD your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation.

The LORD said to Moses, "Hurry and go back down, because your people, whom you led out of Egypt, have sinned and rejected me.

They made a gold bull-calf at Sinai and worshiped that idol;

they exchanged the glory of God for the image of an animal that eats grass.

They say they are wise, but they are fools;

And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

Be certain that you do not forget the covenant that the LORD your God made with you. Obey his command not to make yourselves any kind of idol,

To whom can God be compared? How can you describe what he is like?

God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is."

Since we are God's children, we should not suppose that his nature is anything like an image of gold or silver or stone, shaped by human art and skill.

Sopater son of Pyrrhus, from Berea, went with him; so did Aristarchus and Secundus, from Thessalonica; Gaius, from Derbe; Tychicus and Trophimus, from the province of Asia; and Timothy.

They went ahead and waited for us in Troas.

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God---to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.