Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

Text-Critical English NT

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 exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

25because they exchanged the truth of God for falsehood and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

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Cross References

Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Was it to me that you offered 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 divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, an image formed by the skill and imagination of man.

Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies so that you obey it in the body's sinful desires.

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but he who commits fornication 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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