From Idolatry to Depravity

26 For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions.(A) Their women[a] exchanged natural sexual relations[b] for unnatural ones. 27 The men[c] in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men(B) and received in their own persons[d] the appropriate penalty of their error.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:26 Lit females, also in v. 27
  2. 1:26 Lit natural use, also in v. 27
  3. 1:27 Lit males, also later in v.
  4. 1:27 Or in themselves

26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(A) 27 and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse[b] with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.26 Gk use
  2. 1.27 Gk use