Romans 1:22-23

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

22 p Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and q exchanged the glory of r the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:14
    Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
    1 Corinthians 1:20
    Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 106:20
    They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
    Jeremiah 2:11
    Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
    Deuteronomy 4:16 - 18
    Beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female.
    Acts 17:29
    Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
  3. Cross References
    1 Timothy 1:17
    To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
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