1 Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the gospel of God
2 which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,
3 concerning His Son, who came of the seed of David according to the flesh,
4 who was declared Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
5 through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,
6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,
10 requesting if somehow now at sometime I shall succeed in the will of God to come to you.
11 For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established--
12 that is, that I may be encouraged together among you through the mutual faith both of you and me.
13 Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I planned to come to you (and I was hindered until now), that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the other Gentiles.
14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.
15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes, both to the Jew first and to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
19 Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God has shown it to them.
20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Divinity, so that they are without excuse.
21 Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of the own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,
27 and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.
28 And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;
29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,
30 slanderers, hateful to God, insolent men, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;
32 who, having known the righteous judgment of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve of those who practice them.
Bible verses about "idolaters" | CAB
Romans 1:1-32
James 1:14-15
Revelation 22:15
15 But outside are dogs and drug users and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
Genesis 19:1-38
1 And the two angels came to Sodom at evening. And Lot sat by the gate of Sodom. And Lot, having seen them, rose up to meet them, and he worshipped with his face to the ground, and said,
2 Lo! My lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning you shall depart on your journey. And they said, No, but we will lodge in the street.
3 And he constrained them, and they turned aside to him, and they entered into his house, and he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened cakes for them, and they did eat.
4 But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people together.
5 And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that came to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may be with them.
6 And Lot went out to them to the porch, and he shut the door after him,
7 and said to them, By no means, brethren, do not act so wickedly.
8 But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and use them as it may please you, only do no injury to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shelter of my roof.
9 And they said to him, Stand back! You came here to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm you more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew near to break down the door.
10 And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.
11 And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.
12 And the men said to Lot, Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if you have any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place.
13 For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.
15 But when it was morning, the angels urged Lot, saying, Arise and take your wife, and your two daughters whom you have, and go forth; lest you also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city.
16 And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.
17 And it came to pass when they brought them out, that they said, Save your own life by all means; look not round to that which is behind, nor stay in all the country round about, escape to the mountain, lest perhaps you be overtaken together with them.
18 And Lot said to them, I pray, my lords,
19 since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live, — but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.
20 Behold, this city is near for me to escape to, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? And my soul shall live because of you.
21 And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to you also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which you have spoken.
22 Hurry, therefore, to escape there, for I shall not be able to do anything until you arrive there; therefore he called the name of that city, Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 And the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
25 And He overthrew these cities, and all the country round about, and all that dwelt in the cities, and the plants springing out of the ground.
26 And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham rose up early to go to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28 And he looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and towards the surrounding country, and saw, and behold, a flame went up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, that when God destroyed all the cities of the region round about, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when the Lord overthrew those cities in which Lot dwelt.
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, he and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters with him.
31 And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us sleep with him, and let us raise up seed from our father.
33 So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up.
34 And it came to pass on the next day, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept last night with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and you go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.
35 So they made their father drink wine in that night also, and the younger went in and slept with her father, and he knew not when he slept, nor when he arose.
36 And the two daughters of Lot conceived by their father.
37 And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.
38 And the younger also bore a son, and called his name Ammon, saying, The son of my family. This is the father of the Ammonites to this present day.
Leviticus 18:22
22 And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.
Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
21 envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Colossians 3:5
5 Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Jude 1:7
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Revelation 21:8
8 But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and sinners, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all who are false shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Leviticus 20:13
13 And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.
Romans 1:26-27
26 For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,
27 and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.