Romans 1:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

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  • Ps 106:20 : 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.
  • Rom 1:25 : 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these mute idols, even as you were led.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
  • Ezek 8:10 : 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall all around.
  • Deut 4:15-18 : 15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
  • Deut 5:8 : 8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
  • Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see; 6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell; 7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see; 17 They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.
  • Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name, by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power; not one is missing.
  • Isa 44:13 : 13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

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  • Rom 1:24-29
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    24Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

    25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

    26For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

    27And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting.

    28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

  • Rom 1:18-22
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    18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness;

    19Because what may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them.

    20For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

    21Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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  • Ps 106:19-20
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    19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

    20Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

  • Deut 4:16-17
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    16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

    17The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,

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    29Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.

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    10But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

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    12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

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    17Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

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    8However, then, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

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    9Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

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    10And have put on the new self, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created him.

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    18But we all, with unveiled faces beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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