²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to ^(A)vile passions. For even their ^[a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

⁷ as ^(A)Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the ^[a]vengeance of eternal fire.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is ^[a]contrary to sound doctrine,

²² You shall not lie with ^(A)a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. ²³ Nor shall you mate with any ^(B)animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

^24 (C)‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; ^(D)for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. ²⁵ For ^(E)the land is defiled; therefore I ^(F)visit^[a] the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land ^(G)vomits out its inhabitants. ^26 (H)You shall therefore ^[b]keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you ²⁷ (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), ²⁸ lest ^(I)the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.

^19 (A)who, being past feeling, ^(B)have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.