Romans 1:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Romans 1:26 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:”
King James Version · Public Domain“For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 1:26 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 19:5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- Leviticus 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- Deuteronomy 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- Judges 19:22While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- Romans 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Ephesians 4:19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- Ephesians 5:12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 1 Timothy 1:10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
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