Jer 2:5, Rom 1:21-23, 1Cor 8:4 | ESV | STEP | Thus says the Lord : What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness , and became worthless ?

Jeremiah 2:5

5 Thus says the Lord:

^a“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
^band went after ^cworthlessness, and became worthless?

Romans 1:21-23

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they ^dbecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 ^eClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and ^fexchanged the glory of ^gthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

1 Corinthians 8:4

4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that ^h“an idol has no real existence,” and that ⁱ“there is no God but one.”