Romans 1:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

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  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. 11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: 12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
  • 2 Cor 13:5-7 : 5 Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's? 6 But it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's. 7 Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be: 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
  • Prov 5:12-13 : 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
  • Phlm 1:8 : 8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,
  • 2 Pet 3:5 : 5 But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
  • Acts 17:32 : 32 Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;
  • Rom 1:26 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

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  • Rom 1:18-27
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    18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

    19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

    20 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:

    21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

    22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

    23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

    25 Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

    26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

    27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

  • Titus 1:15-16
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    15 To the clean in heart all things are clean: but to those who are unclean and without faith nothing is clean; they become unclean in mind and in thought.

    16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

  • Rom 1:29-32
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    29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

    30 Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

    31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

    32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

  • Jude 1:7
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    7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

  • Eph 4:18-19
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    18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 2 Tim 3:8-9
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    8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

    9 But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.

  • Rom 2:2-3
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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

    3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

  • Jer 6:30
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    30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • Rom 3:11-12
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    11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

    12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

  • Hos 5:4
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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

    11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

    12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Prov 1:29
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    29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

  • 2 Thess 1:8
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    8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

  • 2 Cor 13:7
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    7 Now our prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that it may be put to our credit, but so that you may do what is right, whatever we may seem.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

    18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • 2 Pet 2:21
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    21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

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    3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Rom 2:8
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    8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10 But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

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    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,