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Romans 1:21-23

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21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
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