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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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes (C)speechless idols!

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25 (A)This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord,
because (B)you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.

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Do Not Love the World

15 (A)Do not love the world or the things in the world. (B)If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—(C)the desires of the flesh and (D)the desires of the eyes and pride of life[a]—is not from the Father but is from the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:16 Or pride in possessions

20 (A)He feeds on (B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (C)a lie in my right hand?”

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Judgment on Judah

Thus says the Lord:

(A)“For three transgressions of Judah,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they have rejected the law of the Lord,
    and have not kept his statutes,
but (C)their lies have led them astray,
    those after which their fathers walked.

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14 (A)Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
    (B)every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
    (C)and there is no breath in them.
15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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31 (A)The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, (B)he who is blessed forever, (C)knows that I am not lying.

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To them belong (A)the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, (B)who is God over all, (C)blessed forever. Amen.

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20 And we know that the Son of God has come and (A)has given us understanding, so that we may know (B)him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and (C)eternal life.

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treacherous, reckless, (A)swollen with conceit, (B)lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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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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God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For (A)the wrath of God (B)is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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