^16 (A)who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

³⁰ Truly, ^(A)these times of ignorance God overlooked, but ^(B)now commands all men everywhere to repent,

³ For we have spent enough of our past ^[a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

¹² that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things ^(A)which are not fitting;

²¹ because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but ^(A)became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ^22 (B)Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the ^(C)incorruptible ^(D)God into an image made like ^[a]corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

^24 (E)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, ^(F)to dishonor their bodies ^(G)among themselves, ²⁵ who exchanged ^(H)the truth of God ^(I)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.