Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature;

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

In Context

25who perverted the truth of God by falsehood, and worshipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen.

27and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet.

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Cross References

Romans 1:28And since they thought not fit to hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to practise deeds unbecoming;

Ephesians 4:19who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.

1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

Jude 1:7As Sodom and Gomorrha and the surrounding cities, in like manner with them abandoned to whoredom, and going after other flesh, are set forth an example, suffering the judicial punishment of eternal fire.

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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