They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
Romans 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles. American Standard Version (1901) and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Common English Bible They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that look like mortal humans: birds, animals, and reptiles. Catholic Public Domain Version And they exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of four-legged beasts, and of serpents. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts, and of creeping things. |
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In it were all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air.
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.
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak.
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.
You have already spent enough time in doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
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.