For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.Claiming to be wise, they became foolsand exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with detestable practices.They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your fathers did not fear.You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.When the Lord saw this, He despised them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.He said:“ I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation— unfaithful children.They have provoked My jealousy with their so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.