because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.
Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
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