Romans 1:24

And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

In Context

23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things.

25who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly.

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:22Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.

Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 17:29Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

Matthew Henry on Romans 1:20-32

The Excellency of the Gospel. ( a. d. 58.) 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22… Read the whole commentary →

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