Romans 1:24
Good News Translation
And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,

Contemporary English Version
So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.

New American Bible
Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

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Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

God.

Psalm 81:11,12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. . . .

Hosea 4:17,18 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone. . . .

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Acts 7:42 And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 14:16 Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 17:29,30 Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man. . . .

Ephesians 4:18 Having their understanding darkened: being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: . . .

through the lusts.

Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

to dishonour.

1 Corinthians 6:13,18 Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

2 Timothy 2:20-22 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour. . . .

between.

Romans 1:27 And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.

Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: because it is an abomination.

Context
God's Wrath against Sin
23And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things. 24Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.…
Cross References
Psalm 81:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Romans 1:26
For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

Romans 1:28
And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Ephesians 2:3
In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Ephesians 4:19
Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

1 Thessalonians 4:4
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

Romans 1:23
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