Romans 1:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Cross References

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.

2 Samuel 22:27

with the pure you show yourself pure, and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.

Psalm 69:27

Add guilt to their guilt; may they have no acquittal from you.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 6:30

They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.

Jeremiah 9:6

Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:5

in order that I may take hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, all of whom are estranged from me through their idols.

Ezekiel 20:25

Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Acts 17:23

For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Acts 17:32

When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, “We will hear you again about this.”

Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those who by their injustice suppress the truth.

Romans 1:21

for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

2 Corinthians 10:5

and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.

Ephesians 5:4

Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in a fiery flame, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:8

As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Philemon 1:8

For this reason, though I am more than bold enough in Christ to command you to do the right thing,

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water,