Romans 1:23

lest you act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

Now the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we; but rather let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we will be stronger than they.

They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them.

Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

“Has a nation changed gods Though they were not gods? But My people have changed their glory For that which does not profit.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

“And I also gave them statutes that were not good and judgments by which they could not live;

“Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the craft and thought of man.

What then? Are we better? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?