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God’s Wrath against Sin

Romans 1:26

In 9 translations

BSB
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
KJV
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:
WEB
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
ASV
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
LSV
Because of this God gave them up to dishonorable affections, for even their females changed the natural use into that against nature;
YLT
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;
DBY
For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;Elohim
DRC
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.
GNV
For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας· αἵ τε γὰρ θήλειαι αὐτῶν μετήλλαξαν τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν,
RP2018
Διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας· αἵ τε γὰρ θήλειαι αὐτῶν μετήλλαξαν τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν·
TR-Boyd
Διὰ τοῦτο παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ Θεὸς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας· αἵ τε γὰρ θήλειαι αὐτῶν μετήλλαξαν τὴν φυσικὴν χρῆσιν εἰς τὴν παρὰ φύσιν·
SCR1894
δια τουτο παρεδωκεν αυτους ο θεος εις παθη ατιμιας αι τε γαρ θηλειαι αυτων μετηλλαξαν την φυσικην χρησιν εις την παρα φυσιν

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • Leviticus 18:22–28You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a…
  • Romans 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
  • 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.
  • 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!”
  • 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…
  • 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;
  • 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.
  • Deuteronomy 23:17–18No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute. You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to…
  • 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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