Q.109. What particular sins does the second commandment forbid?
A. The second commandment forbids: imagining,[1] recommending,[2] demanding,[3] practicing,[4] or in any way approving any religious worship not established by God himself;[5] creating any likeness of God as the Trinity or as anyone of his three persons, either internally in our minds or externally in the form of any kind of image or representation of a created being;[6] any worship of such created likenesses[7] as if God were in them or as if they were a means to worshiping him;[8] the creation of any likenesses of invented gods,[9] any worship of them or service relating to them;[10] and all superstitious contrivances.[11] Also forbidden are: any departure from the true worship of God[12] by adding to or taking away from it,[13] whether by our own invention[14] or received from some other tradition,[15] and whether justified by antiquity,[16] custom,[17] devotional practice,[18] good intentions, or any other excuse;[19] simony[20] and anything sacrilegious;[21] and finally any neglect of,[22] contempt for,[23] hindering,[24] or opposition to the worship and regulations established by God.[25]
| 1 | Numbers 15:39 | dummy text |
| 2 | Deuteronomy 13:6-8 | dummy text |
| 3 | Hosea 5:11 | dummy text |
| Micah 6:16 | dummy text | |
| 4 | 1 Kings 11:33 | dummy text |
| 1 Kings 12:33 | dummy text | |
| 5 | Deuteronomy 12:30-32 | dummy text |
| 6 | Deuteronomy 4:15-19 | dummy text |
| Acts 17:29 | dummy text | |
| Romans 1:21-25 | dummy text | |
| 7 | Daniel 3:18;Galatians 4:8 | dummy text |
| 8 | Exodus 32:5 | dummy text |
| 9 | Exodus 32:8 | dummy text |
| 10 | 1 Kings 18:26 | dummy text |
| 1 Kings 18:28 | dummy text | |
| Isaiah 65:11 | dummy text | |
| 11 | Acts 17:22 | dummy text |
| Acts 19:19 | dummy text | |
| Colossians 2:21-23 | dummy text | |
| 12 | Malachi 1:7-8 | dummy text |
| Malachi 1:14 | dummy text | |
| 13 | Deuteronomy 4:2 | dummy text |
| 14 | Psalms 106:39 | dummy text |
| 15 | Matthew 15:9 | dummy text |
| 16 | 1 Peter 1:18 | dummy text |
| 17 | Jeremiah 44:17 | dummy text |
| 18 | Isaiah 65:3-5 | dummy text |
| Galatians 1:13-14 | dummy text | |
| 19 | 1 Samuel 13:11-12 | dummy text |
| 1 Samuel 15:21 | dummy text | |
| 20 | Acts 8:18 | dummy text |
| 21 | Romans 2:22 | dummy text |
| Malachi 3:8 | dummy text | |
| 22 | Exodus 4:24-26 | dummy text |
| 23 | Matthew 22:5 | dummy text |
| Malachi 1:7 | dummy text | |
| Malachi 1:12-13 | dummy text | |
| 24 | Matthew 23:13 | dummy text |
| 25 | Acts 13:44-45 | dummy text |
| 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 | dummy text |