But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

Through the lusts

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

To dishonour

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthen; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Between

and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.

General references

And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that have come in to thee to-night? bring them out to us that we may know them.