The worship of idols or an excessive attachment or devotion to anything.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me,
Ex. 20: 3 (
Mosiah 12: 35;
13: 12-13). If thou walk after other gods, ye shall surely perish,
Deut. 8: 19. Stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry,
1 Sam. 15: 23. Thou hast discovered thyself to another than me,
Isa. 57: 8. Thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold,
Dan. 5: 23. Ye cannot serve God and mammon,
Matt. 6: 24. Covetousness is idolatry,
Col. 3: 5. Children, keep yourselves from idols,
1 Jn. 5: 21. Wo unto those that worship idols,
2 Ne. 9: 37. The idolatry of the people of Nephi brought upon them their wars and destructions,
Alma 50: 21. Every man walketh after the image of his own god,
D&C 1: 16. Let them labor with their own hands that there be no idolatry,
D&C 52: 39. Abraham’s father was led away by idolatry,
Abr. 1: 27.