Romans 1:21

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them. And they followed vanities, and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

2 Timothy 3:2

Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

Revelation 14:7

Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord, and give him honour, because the hour of his judgment is come; and adore ye him, that made heaven and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.

John 3:19

And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

Revelation 15:4

Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come, and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord, my might and my strength and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth and shall say: Surely our fathers have possessed lies, a vanity which hath not profited them.

Romans 11:10

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always.

Romans 1:28

And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;

Romans 1:19

Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them.

Romans 15:9

But that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy, as it is written: Therefore will I confess to thee, O Lord, among the Gentiles, and will sing to thy name.

Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Hosea 2:8

And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

Isaiah 60:2

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth and a mist the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

1 Peter 1:18

Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

Ecclesiastes 7:29

Which yet my soul seeketh, and I have not found it. One man among a thousand I have found, a woman among them all I have not found.

Deuteronomy 28:29

And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence: and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

Genesis 8:21

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and said: I will no more curse the earth for the sake of man: for the imagination and thought of man's heart are prone to evil from his youth: therefore I will no more destroy every living soul as I have done.

Genesis 6:5

And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

1 Kings 20:23

But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills: therefore they have overcome us. But it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them.

Jeremiah 9:14

But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is perverse above all things and unsearchable. Who can know it?

Ezekiel 20:25

Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

Ezekiel 14:5

That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.