Romans 1:23

New International Version

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

Isaiah 40:18

With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

Acts 10:12

It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds.

Acts 17:29

“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.

Romans 1:25

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

Deuteronomy 5:8

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

1 Peter 4:3

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

Revelation 9:20

The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.