Romans 1:28

Because they refused to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a debased mind that does what is improper. Rejecting God results in a corrupted way of thinking.

Cross-references · 28

• 2 Th 2:10–12and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• Rom 1:21For 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.
• Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
• Jer 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
• Rom 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
• Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
• 2 Tim 3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
• Prov 5:12–13and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
• Jer 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
• Jer 6:30They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
• Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
• 2 Cor 13:5–7Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• 2 Cor 4:4–6The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
• Prov 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
• 1 Cor 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
• Rom 1:18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
• 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Eph 5:4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
• Rom 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• Prov 17:16Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
• 2 Pet 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
• Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
• 2 Cor 10:5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
• Acts 17:32When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”
• Phlm 1:8So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,

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