²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,^(A) and worshiped and served created things^(B) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.^(C) Amen.^(D)

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over^(E) to shameful lusts.^(F) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.^{(G) 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.^(H)