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.

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  1. Romans 1:26 Lit. females

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.

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  1. Jude 1:7 punishment

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,

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  1. 1 Timothy 1:10 opposed

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.

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  1. Leviticus 18:25 bring judgment for
  2. Leviticus 18:26 obey

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

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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. (A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals, nor [b]sodomites,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 catamites, those submitting to homosexuals
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 male homosexuals

24 (A)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, (B)to dishonor their bodies (C)among themselves,

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(A)And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? (B)Bring them out to us that we (C)may know them carnally.

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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;

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12 (A)For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

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Gibeah’s Crime

22 As they were (A)enjoying themselves, suddenly (B)certain men of the city, (C)perverted[a] men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, (D)“Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!

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  1. Judges 19:22 Lit. sons of Belial

17 “There shall be no ritual [a]harlot (A)of the daughters of Israel, or a (B)perverted[b] one of the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are [c]an abomination to the Lord your God.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qedeshah, fem. of qadesh (next note)
  2. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
  3. Deuteronomy 23:18 detestable

10 (A)But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

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