Romans 1:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

Romans 1:26 Cross References

Genesis 19:5

and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

Psalm 81:12

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Romans 1:24

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

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

Ephesians 4:19

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Ephesians 5:12

for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Jude 1:10

But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.

Jude 1:7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication, and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Judges 19:22

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.