Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,

New American Standard Bible

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

King James Version

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Holman Bible

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

International Standard Version

For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

An Understandable Version

So, God allowed [or, abandoned] them to have the impure desires of their hearts, and to [practice] degrading behavior with their bodies among themselves.

Anderson New Testament

For which reason God delivered them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, that they might dishonor their bodies among themselves;

Bible in Basic English

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

Common New Testament

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Daniel Mace New Testament

wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;

Darby Translation

Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

Godbey New Testament

Therefore God gave them up, in the lusts of their hearts, to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves:

Goodspeed New Testament

So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.

John Wesley New Testament

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Julia Smith Translation

Wherefore God delivered them in the eager desire of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies in themselves:

King James 2000

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, [that] their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,

Modern King James verseion

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves:

Moffatt New Testament

So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.

Montgomery New Testament

So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

NET Bible

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore God also abandoned them in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Noyes New Testament

Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

Sawyer New Testament

Wherefore God also gave them up with the desires of their hearts to impurity, to disgrace their bodies among themselves,

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them, -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves:

Twentieth Century New Testament

Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies;

Webster

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

Weymouth New Testament

For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.

Williams New Testament

So God has given them up to sexual impurity, in the evil trend of their heart's desires, so that they degrade their own bodies with one another,

World English Bible

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Worrell New Testament

Wherefore, God gave them up in the desires of their hearts unto the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves;

Worsley New Testament

Wherefore God also gave them up to impurity, in the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves;

Youngs Literal Translation

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
διό 
Dio 
Usage: 52

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151


and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

παραδίδωμι 
Paradidomi 
Usage: 75


Usage: 0

up
παραδίδωμι 
Paradidomi 
Usage: 75

to
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

ἀκαθαρσία 
Akatharsia 
Usage: 9

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the lusts
ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

of their own

Usage: 0

καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

ἀτιμάζω 
Atimazo 
Usage: 4


Usage: 0

σῶμα 
Soma 
Usage: 123

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Context Readings

God's Wrath Revealed Against Sinful Humanity

23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image like corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed things, and creeping things. 24 And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves, 25 who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the creation against him who created it, who is blessed into the ages. Truly.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 4:4

for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

Leviticus 18:22

Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.

Psalm 81:11-12

But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

Hosea 4:17-18

Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them. They are blind leaders of blind men, and if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a ditch.

Acts 7:42

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

Acts 14:16

who in the generations that have passed allowed all the nations to go in their own ways,

Acts 17:29-30

Being therefore offspring of God, we ought not think the Divine to be like gold, or silver, or stone handiwork of the skill and thought of man.

Romans 1:26-28

Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

Romans 6:12

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

1 Corinthians 6:13

The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

Ephesians 4:18-19

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, in return for which, they did not accept the love of the truth in order for them to be saved.

2 Timothy 2:20-22

Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wood and earthen, and some for esteem and some for disesteem.

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