Romans 1:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
  • Rom 9:5 : 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
  • Hab 2:18 : 18 What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
  • 2 Cor 11:31 : 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.
  • Jer 13:25 : 25 This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 Then I said,“LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say,‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods– worthless idols that could not help them at all.
  • Amos 2:4 : 4 This is what the LORD says:“Because Judah has committed three covenant transgressions– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They rejected the LORD’s law; they did not obey his commands. Their false gods, to which their fathers were loyal, led them astray.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Eph 3:21 : 21 to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • 1 Tim 1:11 : 11 This accords with the glorious gospel of the blessed God that was entrusted to me.
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • John 2:8 : 8 Then he told them,“Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.
  • Rom 1:18 : 18 The Condemnation of the Unrighteous For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
  • Jer 10:14-15 : 14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. 15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
  • Ps 72:19 : 19 His glorious name deserves praise forevermore! May his majestic splendor fill the whole earth! We agree! We agree!
  • Ps 145:1-2 : 1 A psalm of praise, by David. I will extol you, my God, O king! I will praise your name continually! 2 Every day I will praise you! I will praise your name continually!

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  • Rom 1:18-24
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    18 The Condemnation of the Unrighteous For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

    19 because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

    20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

    21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

    22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

    23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

    24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • Rom 1:26-32
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    26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

    27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

    28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

    29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

    30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

    31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

    32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

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    10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

    11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

    12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

  • 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • 8 Heirs of Promise Are Not to Return to Law Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.

  • 10 sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

  • 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-5
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    4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

    5 They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

  • Rom 8:20-21
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    20 For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope

    21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

  • 2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth against those who practice such things.

  • 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

  • 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

  • 7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

  • 39 They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.

  • 14 and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

  • 16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

  • 1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

  • 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

  • 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

  • 1 For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • 5 to whom be glory forever and ever! Amen.

  • 7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • 11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!”

  • 19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

  • 42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

  • 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

  • 12 All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”

  • 27 God created humankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

  • 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

  • 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

  • 7 Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

  • 22 You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,