Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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,

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.

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 turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents. 24 Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves: 25 which turned his truth unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures more than the creator, which is blessed forever, Amen.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

Leviticus 18:22

"'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination.

Psalm 81:11-12

But my people would not hear my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

Hosea 4:17-18

And whereas Ephraim is become partaker of Idols: well, let him go.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

Acts 7:42

Then God turned himself, and gave them up, that they should worship the stars of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'O ye of the house of Israel: gave ye to me sacrifices and meat offerings by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Acts 14:16

the which in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 17:29-30

Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

Romans 1:26-28

For this cause, God gave them up unto shameful lusts. For even their women did change the natural use unto the unnatural.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies, that ye should thereunto obey in the lusts of it.

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Let not the body be applied unto fornication, but unto the Lord, and the Lord unto the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.

Ephesians 4:18-19

blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness, among them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might have been saved.

2 Timothy 2:20-22

Notwithstanding, in a great house are not only vessels of gold and of silver: but also of wood and of earth: Some for honour, and some unto dishonour.

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