Romans 1:25 “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served th…”

Romans 1:25

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Geneva Bible 1599

Which turned the trueth of God vnto a lie, and worshipped and serued the creature, forsaking the Creator, which is blessed for euer, Amen.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.

Bible in Basic English

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

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Cross references

“the truth”

1 John 5:20 Romans 1:18 1 Thessalonians 1:9

1 John 5:20 · BSB

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Romans 1:18 · BSB

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

1 Thessalonians 1:9 · BSB

For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

“into a lie”

Habakkuk 2:18 Jeremiah 13:25 Isaiah 44:20 Amos 2:4 Jeremiah 16:19 Jeremiah 10:14

Habakkuk 2:18 · BSB

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Jeremiah 13:25 · BSB

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Amos 2:4 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which th…

Jeremiah 16:19 · BSB

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at…

Jeremiah 10:14 · BSB

Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

“the creature”

Romans 1:23 2 Timothy 3:4 Matthew 6:24 Matthew 10:37 1 John 2:15 1 John 2:16

Romans 1:23 · BSB

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

2 Timothy 3:4 · BSB

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Matthew 6:24 · BSB

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Matthew 10:37 · BSB

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;

1 John 2:15 · BSB

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

1 John 2:16 · BSB

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

“who is”

2 Corinthians 11:31 Romans 9:5 Ephesians 3:21 1 Timothy 1:11 1 Timothy 1:17 Psalm 72:19

2 Corinthians 11:31 · BSB

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.

Romans 9:5 · BSB

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen.

Ephesians 3:21 · BSB

to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 1:11 · BSB

that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

1 Timothy 1:17 · BSB

Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 72:19 · BSB

And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

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