Verse 23 gives the answer: They ???exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images.??? And of course, the image most common then and today is not one that we carve in wood or stone, but the one we see in the mirror. (This is why the gospel, as we saw last week, is designed by the wisdom of God to strip us of all grounds for boasting in ourselves and make the Lord the only object of our exultati