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Romans 1:21

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

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They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors  and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves,  following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.


This is what the  Lord  says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?


For people will be lovers of self,  lovers of money,  boastful, proud,  demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,


He spoke with a loud voice:  ‘Fear God  and give him glory,  because the hour of his judgement has come.  Worship the one who made heaven and earth,  the sea and the springs of water.’


This is the judgement: The light   has come into the world,   and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.


Lord, who will not fear and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship before you because your righteous acts have been revealed.


But you are a chosen race,   ,, a royal priesthood,   , a holy nation,   , a people for his possession,   , so that you may proclaim the praises   ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.


Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in a time of distress, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and they will say, ‘Our ancestors inherited only lies, worthless idols  of no benefit at all.’


Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and their backs be bent continually.   ,


And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.


since what can be known  about God is evident among them,  because God has shown it to them.


and so that Gentiles  may glorify God for his mercy.  As it is written, Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name.   ,


to open their eyes   so that they may turn   from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”


She does not recognise that it is I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the fresh oil. I lavished silver and gold on her, which they used for Baal.


For look, darkness will cover the earth, and total darkness the peoples; but the Lord will shine over you, and his glory will appear over you.


For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,


Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright,  but they pursued many schemes.’


so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark.  You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.


When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,  he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground  because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.  And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.


When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,


Now the king of Aram’s servants said to him, ‘Their gods are gods of the hill country.  That’s why they were stronger than we were. Instead, we should fight with them on the plain; then we will certainly be stronger than they are.


Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts  and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.’


The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?


I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances  they could not live by.


so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”





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