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25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed [a]for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto [b]vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:25 Greek unto the ages.
  2. Romans 1:26 Greek passions of dishonor.

25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,(A) and worshiped and served created things(B) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.(C) Amen.(D)

26 Because of this, God gave them over(E) to shameful lusts.(F) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(G) 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(H)

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