Romans 1:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Cross References

Psalm 106:20

They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Isaiah 40:18

To whom, then, will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.

Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and looked; there, portrayed on the wall all around, were all kinds of creeping things and loathsome animals and all the idols of the house of Israel.

Acts 10:12

In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air.

Acts 17:29

“Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

Romans 1:25

They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

1 Corinthians 12:2

You know that when you were gentiles you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak.

Deuteronomy 5:8

“ ‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 9:20

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