24 Therefore
God gave them over in the
sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their
bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a
lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-- who is
forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to
shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural
ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned
natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another.
Men
committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due
penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it
worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind
of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent,
arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their
parents;
31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless,
ruthless.
32 Although they know God's righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these
very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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