20. His invisible attributes—His eternal power and His divine nature—have been clearly seen ever since the creation of the world, being understood through the things that have been made. So people are without excuse—
21. for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.
22. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
23. They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image in the form of mortal man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.