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Romans 1:26

First Nations Version

So then, the Great Spirit permitted them to go their own way to dishonor themselves by following these dishonorable desires. Their women traded what was their natural sexual desire for what was not natural.

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In the same way, Village of Bad Spirits (Sodom) and Village of Deep Fear (Gomorrah) and the small villages nearby gave themselves over to sexual impurity and to twisted and shameful ways. These villages, which were punished with a fire that burned on and on, are now set before us as a warning against such things.


The law was made for men who sell their bodies for sex or abuse the sacred gift of sex with each other, for slave traders, forked-tongue talkers, those who tell lies about their fellow human beings, and for anything else that goes against the kind of teaching


For this reason the Great Spirit permitted them to go their own way and follow the dark desires found in their own hearts, desires with one another that failed to honor the sacred purpose their bodies had been created for.


Do you not know that the ones who wrong and cheat each other will not share in the blessings of Creator’s good road? Do not let anyone mislead you. Anyone who walks an impure path of uncontrolled desires, or anyone who prays to spirit-images, or any who are unfaithful in marriage, or weak men who let other men use them for sex, or any who abuse the sacred gift of sex with each other.


This takes them down the path of greed and selfish pleasure, leading to an impure life.


The shameful things done under the blanket of night should not even be spoken of,


not with uncontrolled desire, like the people from the Outside Nations who do not know the Great Spirit.


Since they did not want to know the Great Spirit, he turned them over to their worthless ways of thinking, to do things that should not be done.


But these bad-hearted ones speak against things they do not understand. They are like wild beasts who do not think but act only on instinct. These things are taking them to a bad end.





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