²⁶ For this reason ^(A)God gave them over to ^(B)degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature, ²⁷ and likewise the men, too, abandoned natural relations ^[a]with women and burned in their desire toward one another, ^(C)males with males committing ^[b]shameful acts and receiving in ^[c]their own persons the due penalty of their error.

¹³ Let’s ^[a](A)behave properly as in the day, ^(B)not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and debauchery, not in strife and jealousy.

²¹ I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have ^(A)sinned in the past and not repented of the ^(B)impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent behavior which they have practiced.

¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: ^(A)sexual immorality, impurity, indecent behavior,