Romans 1:20–32

²⁰For from the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse. ²¹For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened. ²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ²³and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.

²⁴Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, that their bodies would be dishonored among themselves, ²⁵who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen.

God Hands Sinful Humanity over to Depravity

²⁶Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature, ²⁷and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error. ²⁸And just as they did not see fit to recognize Godⁱ, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things that are not proper, ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. They are gossipers, ³⁰slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹senseless, faithless, unfeeling, unmerciful, ³²who, although they^* know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same things, but also they approve of those who do them.