Romans 1:25
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.
Cross-references
Romans 1:23 shows exchanging God's glory for images — Romans 1:25 repeats the exchange, now trading truth for a lie.
Romans 9:5 ends with the same doxology ('forever praised! Amen') as Romans 1:25, affirming God's eternal worth despite human idolatry.
Matthew 6:24 echoes the same conflict: serving created things (mammon) versus serving God, illustrating the impossibility of dual loyalty.
1 John 2:15 warns against loving the world, directly mirroring the sin of worshiping created things instead of God in Romans 1:25.
2 Timothy 3:4 describes 'lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God' — a direct parallel to worshiping the creature rather than the Creator.
1 Timothy 1:17 ascribes honor to the eternal, immortal, invisible God — the very honor denied to Him in this verse's idolatry.
1 Thessalonians 1:9 describes turning from idols to serve the true God — the opposite response to the idolatry condemned in Romans 1:25.
Ephesians 3:21 gives glory to God — the opposite of the idolatry here, showing the proper response to the Creator.
Habakkuk 2:18 calls an idol a teacher of lies, made by its worshiper — the very creature-worship denounced in Romans 1:25.
Amos 2:4 says lies led Judah astray — the same deceptive idolatry that replaces worship of the Creator.
Jeremiah 16:19 calls idols worthless lies inherited from the fathers — directly paralleling the lie and creature-worship in Romans 1:25.
Jeremiah 13:25 connects forgetting God with trusting in lies — the same exchange of truth for a lie in Romans 1:25.
Jeremiah 10:15 calls idols a work of delusion that will perish — echoing the futility of serving the creature over the Creator.
Jeremiah 10:14 exposes idols as false and breathless — the worthless creatures people worship instead of the Creator.
Isaiah 44:20 depicts the idolater feeding on ashes with a deluded heart — the same self-deception at work in worshiping the creature.
1 John 2:16 breaks down 'loving the world' — lust of flesh, eyes, pride — specifying the created things worshiped in Romans 1:25.
1 John 5:20 declares Jesus as the true God and eternal life — the very truth exchanged for a lie in Romans 1:25.
Deuteronomy 4:19 warns against worshiping the sun, moon, and stars — a specific example of the creature-worship condemned here.
Colossians 2:18 warns against worship of angels — another form of serving the creature, directly illustrating the principle here.
Matthew 10:37 applies the same principle of misplaced priority: loving family more than Christ parallels worshiping creation over Creator.
Psalm 145:1 declares praise to God the King, paralleling the doxology to the Creator in Romans 1:25 — both exalt God forever.
Psalm 72:19 offers a similar doxology: 'Praise be to his glorious name forever... Amen and Amen,' echoing the praise in Romans 1:25.