Romans 1:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

Common English Bible

So God abandoned them to their hearts’ desires, which led to the moral corruption of degrading their own bodies with each other.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For this reason, God handed them over to the desires of their own heart for impurity, so that they afflicted their own bodies with indignities among themselves.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:24 Cross References

Leviticus 18:22

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Acts 14:16

In past generations he allowed all peoples to follow their own ways,

Acts 7:42

But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Romans 6:12

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,