23 and (A)exchanged the glory of (B)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

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20 They (A)exchanged the glory of God[a]
    for the image of an ox that eats grass.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 106:20 Hebrew exchanged their glory

11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
    (B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
    for (D)that which does not profit.

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29 (A)Being then God's offspring, (B)we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

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25 because they exchanged the truth about God for (A)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, (B)who is blessed forever! Amen.

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For the time that is past (A)suffices (B)for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

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10 So I went in and saw. And there, (A)engraved on the wall all around, was (B)every form of (C)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

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15 (A)The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
    the work of human hands.
16 They have mouths, but do not speak;
    they have eyes, but do not see;
17 they have ears, but do not hear,
    nor is there any breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them become like them,
    so do all who trust in them.

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They have mouths, (A)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
(B)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

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“‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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13 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil.[a] He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. (A)He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:13 Hebrew stylus

18 (A)To whom then will you liken God,
    (B)or what likeness compare with him?

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Idolatry Forbidden

15 (A)“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since (B)you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 beware (C)lest you act corruptly (D)by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, (E)the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

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26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
    who created these?
(A)He who brings out their host by number,
    calling them all by name;
by the greatness of his might
    and because he is strong in power,
    not one is missing.

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20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, (A)did not repent of (B)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping (C)demons (D)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,

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