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Romans 1:25

Truth and honestySin

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

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

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.

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

27 Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the One having created, who is blessed to the ages! Amen.
ÅB
de som byttet bort Guds sannhet mot løgn og æret og dyrket skapningen fremfor skaperen, han som er velsignet i evighet. Amen.
OTB
De byttet ut Guds sannhet med en løgn, og tilba og tjente det skapte fremfor Skaperen—som er velsignet i evighet. Amen.
B1930
de som byttet Guds sannhet bort mot løgn og æret og dyrket skapningen fremfor skaperen, han som er velsignet i evighet. Amen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Habakkuk 2:18

    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.

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  • Jeremiah 13:25

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

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  • 1 John 2:15–16

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

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  • Isaiah 44:20

    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?”

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  • Amos 2:4

    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 their fathers walked.

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:31

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

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  • Romans 9:5

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

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  • Jeremiah 10:14–15

    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.

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