and instead turned to idolatry, the worship of created things. As a consequence or punishment for the sin of abandoning the worship of God in favour of the worship of things in nature, ‘God handed them [humanity] over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves …’ (Rom. 1:24–25). How do the depravities in verses 24–31, including specific mention of homosexual relations in verses 26–27, contribute to Paul’s argument? According to the exhaustive treatment
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