Romans 1:18–28

THE GUILT OF THE GENTILE WORLD

¹⁸For God’s wrath^ah is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,^{ai 19}since what can be known^M about God is evident among them,^aj because God has shown it to them. ²⁰For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world,^ak being understood through what he has made.^al As a result, people are without excuse. ²¹For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.^{am 22}Claiming to be wise, they became fools^{an 23}and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.^ao

²⁴Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts^ap to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. ²⁵They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,^aq and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever.^ar Amen.

FROM IDOLATRY TO DEPRAVITY

²⁶For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions.^as Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷The men^C in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men^at and received in their own persons^D the appropriate penalty of their error.

²⁸And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.