Romans 1:23

New Century Version

They traded the glory of God who lives forever for the worship of idols made to look like earthly people, birds, animals, and snakes.

Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged their glorious God for a statue of a bull that eats grass.

Isaiah 40:18

Can you compare God to anything? Can you compare him to an image of anything?

Isaiah 40:26

Look up to the skies. Who created all these stars? He leads out the army of heaven one by one and calls all the stars by name. Because he is strong and powerful, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 44:13

Another workman uses a line and a compass to draw on the wood. Then he uses his chisels to cut a statue and his calipers to measure the statue. In this way, the workman makes the wood look exactly like a person, and this statue of a person sits in the house.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (Of course, its gods are not really gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for idols worth nothing.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I entered and looked, and I saw every kind of crawling thing and hateful beast and all the idols of the people of Israel, carved on the wall all around.

Acts 10:12

In it were all kinds of animals, reptiles, and birds.

Acts 17:29

Since we are God’s children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.

Romans 1:25

They traded the truth of God for a lie. They worshiped and served what had been created instead of the God who created those things, who should be praised forever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know the way you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that could not speak.

Deuteronomy 5:8

“You must not make for yourselves any idols or anything to worship that looks like something in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you wasted too much time doing what nonbelievers enjoy. You were guilty of sexual sins, evil desires, drunkenness, wild and drunken parties, and hateful idol worship.

Revelation 9:20

The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk.