Romans 1:18-32
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
18 For athe wrath of God bis revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be aknown about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, ahave been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they abecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 aClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and aexchanged the glory of bthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore aGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to bthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for aa lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, bwho is blessed forever! Amen.
26 For this reason aGod gave them up to bdishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, amen committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, aGod gave them up to ba debased mind to do cwhat ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know aGod’s righteous decree that those who practice such things bdeserve to die, they not only do them but cgive approval to those who practice them.
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