Romans 1:23

New American Bible - revised edition

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bull.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom can you liken God? With what likeness can you confront him?

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these: He leads out their army and numbers them, calling them all by name. By his great might and the strength of his power not one of them is missing!

Isaiah 44:13

The woodworker stretches a line, and marks out a shape with a stylus. He shapes it with scraping tools, with a compass measures it off, Making it the copy of a man, human display, enthroned in a shrine.

Jeremiah 2:11

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Ezekiel 8:10

I went in and looked—figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts, all the idols of the house of Israel, pictured around the wall.

Acts 10:12

In it were all the earth’s four-legged animals and reptiles and the birds of the sky.

Acts 17:29

Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.

Romans 1:25

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know how, when you were pagans, you were constantly attracted and led away to mute idols.

Deuteronomy 5:8

You shall not make for yourself an idol or a likeness of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth;

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.