Deuteronomy 12:30
30take care athat you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’2 Chronicles 28:23-25
23For bhe sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, c“Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 24And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and dcut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made himself ealtars in every corner of Jerusalem. 25In every city of Judah he made high places to fmake offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the Lord, the God of his fathers.Jeremiah 10:2
2Thus says the Lord:“Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
Ezekiel 23:16-17
16When she saw them, she lusted after them and gsent messengers to them hin Chaldea. 17And the Babylonians came to her iinto the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, jshe turned from them in disgust.Romans 12:2
2 kDo not be conformed to this world, ▼▼Greek age
but be transformed by mthe renewal of your mind, that by testing you may ndiscern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ▼▼Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
1 Peter 1:18
18knowing that you pwere ransomed from qthe futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
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