Cross references

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.

Romans 1:21 BSB

Romans 1:21 has 29 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 22 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 4:17–18 (31 votes) and 2 Kings 17:15 (19 votes). 79 other verses point back to it. It links with 35 other books, from Genesis 6 to Revelation 15.

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Which verses does Romans 1:21 point to?

The 20 strongest of 29, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 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 their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  2. They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

  3. Jeremiah 2:514 votes

    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.

  4. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

  5. Psalm 50:2312 votes

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

  6. John 3:199 votes

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

  7. And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”

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

  9. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

  10. Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

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

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

  13. Psalm 86:94 votes
  14. Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Which verses point to Romans 1:21?

The 10 strongest of 79.