Rom 1:21-23, 28, 1Cor 1:21, 2Cor 4:4, Gal 4:8, 1Th 4:5 | ESV | STEP | For although they knew God , they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking , and their foolish hearts were darkened .

j[See ver. 3 above]

k ver. 6; See Acts 26:18

lSee ch. 3:18

m Col. 1:15; [Phil. 2:6; Heb. 1:3]

n 1 Cor. 1:21; 1 Thess. 4:5; 2 Thess. 1:8; 1 John 4:8

o[Eph. 2:11, 12; 1 Thess. 1:9]

p 2 Chr. 13:9; Isa. 37:19; Jer. 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; [1 Cor. 8:4]

qSee Rom. 1:26

r Eph. 4:17

s Ps. 79:6; Jer. 9:3; 10:25; See Gal. 4:8

Romans 1:21-23

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

Romans 1:28

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ^eGod gave them up to ^fa debased mind to do ^gwhat ought not to be done.

1 Corinthians 1:21

21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach ^{▼▼Or the folly of preaching} to save those who believe.

2 Corinthians 4:4

4 In their case ⁱthe god of this world ^jhas blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing ^kthe light of ^lthe gospel of the glory of Christ, ^mwho is the image of God.

Galatians 4:8

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

8 Formerly, when you ⁿdid not know God, you ^owere enslaved to those that by nature ^pare not gods.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

5 not in ^qthe passion of lust ^rlike the Gentiles ^swho do not know God;