Romans 1:24

Translations

Modern

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Traditional

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Literal

Therefore God gave them up in the sinful desires of their hearts to uncleanness to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

Latin

Propter quod tradidit illos Deus in desideria cordis eorum, in immunditiam, ut contumeliis afficiant corpora sua in semetipsis:

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English

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Notes

Romans 1:24

When people replaced the living God with idols (false gods), God abandoned them. Paul emphasizes this point twice more in this paragraph (1:26, 28). The phrase gave them over suggests that God actively allows people to experience the consequences of their sin.

Romans 1:18–3:20

Paul waits to explain righteousness through faith (see 3:21) until he first teaches about the sinfulness of all people. Both non-Jews and Jews are equally under the power of sin (1:18–32; 2:1–3:8). Because of this, both groups are in the same situation before God. No one can gain God’s favor by their own actions or obedience (3:9–20). All people need God’s saving action, not their own efforts.

Theme notes and profiles

Paul (Saul) Pharaoh Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility Natural Revelation Sin Enters the World Social Chaos in Judges The Purpose of the Judgments The Unknown God

Related verses

Psalm 81:11–12
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
Acts 7:42
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 14:16
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
Matthew 15:14
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
…and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Ephesians 4:18–19
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Romans 1:26–28
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Leviticus 18:22
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:4
…each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Acts 17:29–30
Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

Glossary

Atonement Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Covet, Covetousness Faith Hardness of Heart Idols, Idolatry Letter to the Romans New Creation, New Creature Sex, Sexuality Sin

Topics

Conscience: Dead Crime: Partial Lists of Gentiles: Unclassified Sciptures Relating To Holy Spirit: Withdrawn from Incorrigible Sinners Idolatry: Wicked Practices of Licentiousness of Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Rome: Abominations In Sodomy: General Scriptures Concerning Wicked (People): Described Wicked (People): Spirit of God Withdrawn From

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