Romans 1:24

Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

Noyes Bible

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 for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

25because they changed the true God for false gods, and adored and worshipped created things rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

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Cross References

Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols; Let him alone!

Acts 7:42But God turned away, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the Prophets, “Did ye offer to me slain beasts and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 17:29Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Deity is like to gold or silver or stone, graven by the art and device of man.

Romans 6:12Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth 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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