Romans 1:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

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  • Ps 106:20 : 20 Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
  • Acts 17:29 : 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
  • Rom 1:25 : 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 12:2 : 2 You know that when you were heathen{or Gentiles}, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
  • Ezek 8:10 : 10 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed on the wall round about.
  • Deut 4:15-18 : 15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire. 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
  • Deut 5:8 : 8 "You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, [nor] any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
  • Ps 115:5-8 : 5 They have mouths, but they don't speak; They have eyes, but they don't see; 6 They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell; 7 They have hands, but they don't feel; They have feet, but they don't walk; Neither do they speak through their throat. 8 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, 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 can't speak; They have eyes, but they can't see; 17 They have ears, but they can't hear; Neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them; Yes, everyone who 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, 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 lacking.
  • Isa 44:13 : 13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

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  • Rom 1:24-29
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    24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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

    26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

    27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

    28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

    29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

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

    19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

    20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

    21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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

    20 Thus they exchanged their glory For an image of a bull that eats grass.

  • Deut 4:16-17
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    16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

    17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

  • Acts 17:29
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    29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • Jer 51:17
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    17 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • Gen 1:26
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    26 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 sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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    4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

  • Titus 1:16
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    16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • 2 Tim 3:5
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    5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof. Turn away from these, also.

  • Gal 4:8
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    8 However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

  • Jer 10:14
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    14 Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

  • 2 Cor 4:4
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    4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

  • Eph 4:17-19
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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    19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    11 Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 that no flesh should boast before God.

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    9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8 Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, That which their own fingers have made.

  • Rom 8:21
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    21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

  • 1 Cor 3:17
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    17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • Isa 44:17
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    17 The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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    18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him?

  • Exod 20:4
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    4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

  • Eph 4:22
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    22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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    1 > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

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    1 > The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9 Those who fashion an engraved image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses don't see, nor know: that they may be disappointed.

    10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

  • Rev 9:20
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    20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

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    10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

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    23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.