Rom.1.21

Romans 1:21

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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.

God’s Wrath against Sin

Cross References

Genesis 8:21

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And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Noah Builds an Altar

1 Kings 20:23

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And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

Ahab Defeats Ben-hadad

2 Kings 17:15

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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

Israel Carried Captive to Assyria

Why Israel Fell

Isaiah 44:20

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He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

The LORD Has Chosen Israel

The Folly of Idolatry

Jeremiah 2:5

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¶ Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Israel Has Forsaken God

Jeremiah 9:14

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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

A Lament over Zion

Jeremiah 17:9

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¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

The Sin and Punishment of Judah

Ezekiel 20:25

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Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

Israel’s Rebellion in the Wilderness

Ephesians 4:17

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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

New Life in Christ

Ephesians 4:18

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Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: