But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Through the lusts

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

To dishonour

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

Between

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.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

General references

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