25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,(A) and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever.(B) Amen.

From Idolatry to Depravity

26 This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions.(C) For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations[a] for unnatural ones. 27 The males in the same way also left natural relations[b] with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males(D) and received in their own persons[c] the appropriate penalty of their error.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:26 Lit natural use
  2. Romans 1:27 Lit natural use
  3. Romans 1:27 Or in themselves

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