Romans 1:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

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  • Ps 19:1-6 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. 2 Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. 3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, 5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. 6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.
  • Rom 1:19 : 19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.
  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
  • Rom 2:15 : 15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
  • Ps 33:6-9 : 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth. 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses. 8 Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him. 9 For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.
  • Ps 104:5 : 5 He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
  • John 1:18 : 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.
  • Ps 139:13 : 13 My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
  • Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.
  • Job 31:26-28 : 26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way, 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth; 28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
  • Ps 104:31 : 31 Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:
  • Ps 119:90 : 90 Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.
  • Ps 90:2 : 2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
  • Deut 33:27 : 27 The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.
  • Isa 26:4 : 4 Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.
  • Ps 148:8-9 : 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word: 9 Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains: 10 Beasts and all cattle; insects and winged birds: 11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth: 12 Young men and virgins; old men and children:
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
  • Heb 11:27 : 27 By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.
  • Col 2:9 : 9 For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

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    18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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