Romans 1:23

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They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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