Romans 1:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For this reason God gave them over and abandoned them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and abnormal one,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

Common English Bible

²⁶ That’s why God abandoned them to degrading lust. Their females traded natural sexual relations for unnatural sexual relations.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature.

Romans 1:26 Cross References

Jude 1:7

Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

1 Timothy 1:10

the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

Romans 1:24

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

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex,

Ephesians 4:19

They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Genesis 19:5

and they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”

Judges 19:22

While they were enjoying themselves, the men of the city, a perverse lot, surrounded the house and started pounding on the door. They said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, so that we may have intercourse with him.”

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God;

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Jude 1:10

But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct.

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.