Romans 1:23

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Summary

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.

Changed

Romans 1:25

Psalm 106:20

Jeremiah 2:11

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General references

Genesis 19:5

Exodus 20:4

Bible References

Changed

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

Hath a nation changed its gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

An image

And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:

They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not;

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.

And I went in and looked, and behold, every form of creeping thing and abominable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.

And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

General references

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.

Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth: