²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.^(A)

¹³ “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.^(A) They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

²² “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;^(A) that is detestable.^(B)

²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images^(A) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over^(B) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.^(C)