The noun “εἰδωλολατρεία”

Limited to 1 Cor. 10:14; Gal. 5:20; Col. 3:5; 1 Pet. 4:3, the Greek noun “eidololatreia” meant “idolatry.”  Idolatry is designating something as God when this is not true.

One example of idolatry is covetousness (Col. 3:5).  Idolatry is something from which Christians must flee (1 Cor. 10:14) because it is a work of the flesh (Gal. 5:20).  Peter listed this sin with other wrongs in 1 Pet. 4:3.