Romans 1:25 (WEB)
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Catechism · 4
The First Commandment
“He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 1:18-32.
The Fall
“Likewise, sin frequently manifests itself in the history of Israel, especially as infidelity to the God of the Covenant and as transgression of the Law of Moses. and even after Christ's atonement, sin raises its head in countless ways among Christians.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Gen 4:3-15; 6:5, 12; Rom 1:18-32; I Cor 1-6; Rev 2-3.
The Revelation of God
“But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly threaten this provisional economy with the perversion of paganism.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 1:18-25.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.” — Catechism footnote: LG 16; cf. Rom 1:21, 25.
Fathers and councils · 35
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.4Book VI
“And although some may appear to have risen above such practices, nevertheless they will be found to have changed the truth of God into a lie, and to worship and serve the “creature more than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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“…from God, His providence leaving them to themselves, they were given “up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies,” in shamelessness and licentiousness, because they “changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 24, 25.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…and how is it that the inspired Apostle, himself adoring Christ, lays it down that they who worship the creature besides the Creator are guilty of idolatry?” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25, where παρὰ τὸν κτίσαντα may be better translated “besides the Creator,” or “rather than the Creator,” than as in the A.V.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“For the former “serve the creature rather than the Creator,” and “those which are not gods,” notwithstanding that they ascribe the first place in Deity to that God who was the Maker of this universe.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For it was fitting that the redemption should take place through none other than Him who is the Lord by nature, lest, though created by the Son, we should name another Lord, and fall into the Arian and Greek folly, serving the creature beyond the all-creating God.” — editor's note: Vid. Rom. i. 25. and so both text and application very frequently, e.g. Ep. Æg. 4. e. 13. c. Vid. supr. i. 8, note 8, infr. iii. 16. note
Read the whole comment“Amen.’” — editor's note: Rom. i. 19–25
Read the whole comment“For not only did they grave idols for themselves, instead of the truth, and honour things that were not before the living God, “and serve the creature rather than the Creator,” but, worst of all, they transferred the honour of God even to stocks and stones and to every material object and…” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 25
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John Damascene
“The sun and the moon, moreover, suffer eclipse, and this demonstrates the folly of those who worship the creature in place of the Creator, and teaches us how changeable and alterable all things are.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…which Thou hast made and ordained, or by an immoderate use of things permitted, or in “burning” in things forbidden to that use which is against nature; or when convicted, raging with heart and voice against Thee, kicking against the pricks; or when, breaking through the pale of human society, they audaciously…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 24–29.
Read the whole comment“…man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things,—changing Thy truth into a lie, and worshipping and serving the creature more than the Creator.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“But I set not my mind on the idols of Egypt, whom they ministered to with Thy gold, “who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“For it is unjust to leave the Maker of the worlds, and “serve the creature more than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“One sentence of the Apostle, therefore, testifieth to their punishment and condemnation; “Who,” he saith, “have changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“…of contradictions in them become the means by which many are made blind, deservedly given over to the lusts of their own heart, and to a reprobate mind; and by which also many are exercised in the thorough cultivation of a pious understanding, in accordance with the hidden righteousness of the Almighty?” — editor's note: Rom. i. 24–28.
Read the whole comment“Of such saith the apostle: “They worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“For “they serve the creature more than the Creator, Who is blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25
Read the whole comment“…the Holy Spirit is not a creature is made quite plain by that passage above all others, where we are commanded not to serve the creature, but the Creator; not in the sense in which we are commanded to “serve” one another by love, which is in Greek δουλεύειν, but in that in which God alone is served, which is in…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25
Read the whole comment“…under the rule and government of the one true God, “serving,” as saith the apostle, “the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“For they were either leaders or followers of the people in adoring images, “and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 21–25.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…vain in their imaginations, and changed the glory of God into the likeness of corruptible man, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 21, 23, 25.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Thus, in fact, you may read: “God gave them over to the lusts of their own heart, that they might one with another dishonour their bodies, they who changed God’s truth into a lie, and worshipped and served the thing created rather than the Creator, Who is God, blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“Again, the Apostle himself, by declaring that no worship is to be rendered to a created existence, has shown that the Son has not been created, but begotten, of God.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“For assuredly when Paul said, “Who served the creature more than the Creator,” he neither denied the Father to be the Creator, from Whom are all these things, nor yet the Son, through Whom are all things.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“If, then, the Spirit is Creator, He is certainly not a creature, for the Apostle has separated the Creator and the creature, saying: “They served the creature rather than the Creator.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
Read the whole comment“And one cannot be the Creator of all except he be not a creature, and he who is not a creature is without doubt God; for it is written: “They worshipped the creature rather than the Creator, Who is God blessed for ever.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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John Chrysostom
“Let us not then confound the creation with the Creator, lest we too hear it said of us, that “they served the creature rather than the Creator” ( Rom. i. 25 ); for although it be asserted that this is said of the heavens, still in speaking of the heavens he positively says, that we must not serve the…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And again in another place when he had said, “They worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever: Amen;”he completed not his discourse, but begins again.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Mark
“…One of God, is ordered to hold his peace, for they “knowing God did not glorify him as God,” [Rom 1:21] but “rather served the creature than the Creator.” [Rom 1:25]” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“For we may not serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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Tertullian
“Happy, no doubt, is faith, if it is to obtain gifts which the enemies of God and Christ not only use, but even abuse, “worshipping the creature itself in opposition to the Creator!”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“This was the first thing that he learnt—his own shame; and he hid himself from God.” — editor's note: Rom. i. 22–31.
Read the whole comment“…while we avoid their dangers; not raising creation, as foolish men do, in revolt against the Creator, but from the works of nature apprehending the Worker, and, as the divine apostle says, bringing into captivity every thought to Christ: and again, as we know that neither fire, nor food, nor iron, nor any other of…” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20, 25.
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Leo the Great
“…so that “the invisible things of God may be perceived and seen through the things which are made,” and men may serve the Creator of all, not His creatures.” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. i. 20 and 25.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…figureless, the cause of all figures to those things that are moulded into shapes,—“and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20–27.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Wherefore also God gave them up to ignominious passions.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 25, 26.
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Cross-references · 44
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.4.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.9.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith II.7.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.28.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.28.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in Against Eunomius II.9.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.9.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 26.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.9.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies II.9.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 1:23–28 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 19.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 16.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith I.17.
Cited together in Confessions III.8.