Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

(v23, NIV)

I did skip a few verses, but those verses and this one make up the next section. This next section is about idolatry. Here in verse 23, we can see this dark exchange. Idolatry is the exchange of God for images. These images pale in comparison to God. Even so, people still do it and it's terrible. It may seem like a good idea, but it is not. This exchange is just a bad trade because instead of God, you're just getting an image. This image is so very less valuable than God. It's not just an image, but an image made to look like mortal man. Man is the image of God. But that's not what you're getting; you're getting an image made to look like mortal man. What you're getting in exchange for God is so far removed from God that it's just a bad trade. These images that you're getting are corruptible, but what you gave up was incorruptible. God and his glory are incorruptible, and exchanging the incorruptible for the corruptible is a poor trade. Do not trade it away.