Romans 1:21

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Romans 1:21

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Summary

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

When

Romans 1:19

John 3:19

They glorified

But became

Their foolish

1 Peter 2:9

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When

because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

They glorified

and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written,
“Therefore I will

give praise to You among the Gentiles,

And I will sing to Your name.”

“He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;
And to him who

orders his way aright

I shall show the salvation of God.”

All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord,

And they shall glorify Your name.

“For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal.

The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,

Drag them away with their net,

And gather them together in their fishing net.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.

Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

and he said with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and sea and springs of waters.”

“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy;
For all the nations will come and worship before You,
For Your

righteous acts have been revealed.”

But became

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The Lord

smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done.

They rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them not to do like them.

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.

Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Thus says the Lord,
“What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

For the customs of the peoples are

delusion;

Because it is wood cut from the forest,
The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
And my refuge in the day of distress,
To You the nations will come
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,
Futility and

things of no profit.”

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

knowing that you were not

redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

Their foolish

“Let their eyes be darkened to see not,
And bend their backs forever.”

and you will

grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

“For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the Lord will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you.

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

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The Lord

knows the thoughts of man,

That they are a mere breath.

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings and to prepare sacrifices continually.’”

Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.