Joshua 24:20-22

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²⁰If you forsake the Lord and ^[a]serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.

²¹And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the Lord.

²²Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.

Joshua 24:20 Anything which we keep in our hearts in the place which God ought to have is an idol, whether it be an image of wood or stone or gold, or whether it be money, or desire for fame, or love of pleasure, or some secret sin which we will not give up. If God does not really occupy the highest place in our hearts, controlling all, something else does, and that something else is an idol (J. R. Miller, Devotional Hours with the Bible).