Romans 1:23

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Romans 1:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

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Romans 1:25

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

Psalms 106:20

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Deuteronomy 4:15

So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

Deuteronomy 4:16

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

Deuteronomy 4:17

of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

Deuteronomy 4:18

or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.

Deuteronomy 5:8

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Psalms 115:5

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

Psalms 115:6

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

Psalms 115:7

they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.

Psalms 115:8

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Psalms 135:15

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Psalms 135:16

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

Psalms 135:17

they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

Psalms 135:18

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

Acts 17:29

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

Revelation 9:20

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.