But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design 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 hearts;

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Through the lusts

Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

To dishonour

"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, 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 large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

Between

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

General references

They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them."