Romans 1:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

An image

General references

Genesis 19:5

Exodus 20:4

Bible References

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

They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

An image

Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

The nations' idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

To whom can you compare God? To what image can you liken him?

A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.

So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast -- detestable images -- and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

General references

They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.