Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Cross References (29)

  • Ephesians 4:17–18 (29)

    So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of th

  • 2 Kings 17:15 (17)

    They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. Th

  • Jeremiah 2:5 (14)

    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed wort

  • 2 Timothy 3:2 (13)

    For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrat

  • Psalms 50:23 (12)

    He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

  • John 3:19 (9)

    And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because the

  • Revelation 14:7 (8)

    And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One wh

  • Psalms 81:12 (7)

    So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

  • 1 Peter 2:9 (7)

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtu

  • Revelation 15:4 (7)

    Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before Y

  • Romans 1:19 (6)

    For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

  • Jeremiah 16:19 (6)

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the

  • Romans 11:10 (5)

    May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.”

  • Habakkuk 1:15–16 (5)

    The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rej

  • Luke 17:15–18 (5)

    When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

  • Romans 1:28 (5)

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to

  • Jeremiah 10:3–8 (4)

    For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the ha

  • Jeremiah 10:14–15 (4)

    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are

  • Psalms 86:9 (4)

    All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

  • Hosea 2:8 (4)

    For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—wh

  • Isaiah 60:2 (4)

    For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His

  • Acts 26:18 (4)

    to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may recei

  • Ecclesiastes 7:29 (3)

    Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

  • Romans 15:9 (3)

    so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I

  • Genesis 8:21 (3)

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eve

  • 1 Peter 1:18 (3)

    For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of

  • Deuteronomy 28:29 (3)

    and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you

  • Genesis 6:5 (3)

    Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his

  • Isaiah 44:9–20 (3)

    All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,