Romans 1:21 Cross References - Williams

²¹ because, although they once knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give Him thanks, but became silly in their senseless speculations, and so their insensible hearts have been shrouded in darkness.

¹⁵ But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, praising God with a loud voice, ¹⁶ and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and continued to thank Him. Now he was a Samaritan. ¹⁷ And Jesus said, "Were not ten cured? Where are the other nine? ¹⁸ Were none found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

¹⁹ And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

¹⁹ because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.

²⁸ And so, as they did not approve of fully recognizing God any longer, God gave them up to minds that He did not approve, to practices that were improper;

¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."

⁹ and for the heathen peoples to praise God for His mercy, as the Scripture says: "For this I will give thanks to you among the heathen, and will sing praises to your name."

¹⁷ So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds, ¹⁸ with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;

² For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

¹⁸ because you know that you have not been ransomed with things that perish as silver or gold, from the futile way of living taught by your fathers,

⁹ But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

⁷ He cried in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made heaven and earth and sea and the springs of water."

⁴ Who will not fear and glorify your name, O Lord? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship you, because the justice of your sentences has now been shown."