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Romans 1:26
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Because of their filth, God has turned 'em loose to do what they want, even though they bring shame upon themselves by it. Women use their natural sex appeal to do the appalling.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Amen. Therefore God gave them up to vile affections; for even their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: And likewise also the men,
This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,
For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature:
Because of this, God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females changed the natural use to that contrary to nature.
Therfore God gaue the vp vnto shamefull lustes. For their wemen chaunged the naturall vse in to the vnnaturall:
amen. for this cause God gave them up to infamous passions: for even the sex perverted the instinct of nature:
Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either—women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading and vile passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural [a function contrary to nature],
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
For this cause god gave them vp vnto shamfull lustes. For even their wemen did chaunge the naturall vse vnto the vnnaturall.
For this cause God gave them up to immoral sexual passions of shame: for even their women changed the natural use into what is against nature:
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;
Because people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex and started having sex with other women.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
God let them follow their own evil desires. Women no longer wanted to have sex in a natural way, and they did things with each other that were not natural.
This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural;
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature.
Therefore God has given them up to vile passions: for even their women have changed the natural use of their sex into that which is unnatural:
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. Even their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.Leviticus 18:22-23; Ephesians 5:12; Jude 1:10;">[xr]
WHEREFORE Aloha delivered them up to passions of vileness: for their females changed the use of their nature, and to what is not natural were used.
For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
Because of this, God let them follow their sinful desires which lead to shame. Women used their bodies in ways God had not planned.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,
For this cause, God gave them up unto dishonourable passions; for, even their females, exchanged away the natural use into that which is against nature, -
For this cause, God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.
Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,
Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes: For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse, into that which is agaynst nature.
Because people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex with men and started having sex with other women.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature,
Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.
Amen. Therfor God bitook hem in to passiouns of schenschipe. For the wymmen of hem chaungiden the kyndli vss in to that vss that is ayens kynde.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
gave them: Romans 1:24
vile: Genesis 19:5, Leviticus 18:22-28, Deuteronomy 23:17, Deuteronomy 23:18, Judges 19:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Ephesians 4:19, Ephesians 5:12, 1 Timothy 1:10, Jude 1:7, Jude 1:10
Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:13 - General 1 Kings 15:12 - the sodomites 1 Kings 22:46 - the remnant 2 Kings 23:7 - the sodomites Psalms 81:12 - I gave Jeremiah 4:10 - surely Ezekiel 16:50 - and committed Romans 7:5 - motions Colossians 3:5 - inordinate 1 Thessalonians 4:5 - in the
Cross-References
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections,.... Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women:
for even the women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; either by prostituting themselves to, and complying with the "sodomitical" embraces of men, in a way that is against nature h; or by making use of such ways and methods with themselves, or other women, to gratify their lusts, which were never designed by nature for such an use: of these vicious women, and their practices, Seneca i speaks, when he says,
"libidine veto nec maribus quidem cedunt, pati natae; Dii illas Deoeque, male perdant; adeo perversum commentae, genus impudicitiae, viros ineunt:''
also Clemens Alexandrinus k has respect to such, saying,
"gunaikev andrizontai para fusin, gamou men ai te kai
γαμουσαι γυναικες.'
and such there were among the Jews, whom they call חמסוללות זו בזו
נשים l, and whom the priests were forbidden to marry.
h Vid. R. Sol Jarchi in Gen. xxiv. 16. i Epist. 95. k Paedagog. l. 3. p. 226. l T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 65. 2. Piske Tosaph. ib. artic. 266. Yevamot, fol. 76. 1. & Piske Tosaph. ib. art. 141. Maimonides in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 7. sect. 4. & Hilchot Issure Bia, c. 21. sect. 8, 9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For this cause - On account of what had just been specified; to wit, that they did not glorify him as God, that they were unthankful, that they became polytheists and idolaters. In the previous verses he had stated their speculative belief. He now proceeds to show its practical influences on their conduct.
Vile affections - Disgraceful passions or desires. That is, to those which are immediately specified. The great object of the apostle here, it will be remembered, is to shew the state of the pagan world, and to prove that they had need of some other way of justification than the law of nature. For this purpose, it was necessary for him to enter into a detail of their sins. The sins which he proceeds to specify are the most indelicate, vile, and degrading which can be charged on man. But this is not the fault of the apostle. If they existed, it was necessary for him to charge them on the pagan world. His argument would not be complete without it. The shame is not in specifying them, but in their existence; not in the apostle, but in those who practiced them, and imposed on him the necessity of accusing them of these enormous offences. It may be further remarked, that the mere fact of his charging them with these sins is strong presumptive proof of their being practiced. If they did not exist, it would be easy for them to deny it, and put him to the proof of it. No man would venture charges like these without evidence; and the presumption is, that these things were known and practiced without shame. But this is not all. There is still abundant proof on record in the writings of the pagan themselves, that these crimes were known and extensively practiced.
For even their women ... - Evidence of the shameful and disgraceful fact here charged on the women is abundant in the Greek and Roman writers. Proof may be seen, which it would not be proper to specify, in the lexicons, under the words τριζὰς ὄλισβον trizas olisbon, and ἑταιρίστης hetairistēs. See also Seneca, epis. 95; Martial, epis. i. 90. Tholuck on the State of the pagan World, in the Biblical Repository, vol. ii.; Lucian, Dial. Meretric. v.; and Tertullian de Pallio.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 26. For this cause God gave them up, c.] Their system of idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of impurity. How could it be otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of the most infamous kind, such as Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Venus, &c.? Of the abominable evils with which the apostle charges the Gentiles in this and the following verse I could produce a multitude of proofs from their own writings but it is needless to make the subject plainer than the apostle has left it.
