Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies;
New American Standard Bible
Therefore
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
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.
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:
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;
Themes
Error » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Gentiles » Unclassified sciptures relating to
Holy spirit » Withdrawn from incorrigible sinners
Impurity » General references to
Service » Who served the creature more than the creator
Sexual activities » Why people partake in inappropriate sexual behavior
Sin » Penalty for » Abandonment by God
Sins » Penalty » Abandonment by God
Transgression » Sin's penalty » Abandonment by God
Uncleanness » Why God let people go into uncleanness
Wicked people » Spirit of God withdrawn from
Topics
Interlinear
Paradidomi
Paradidomi
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 1:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Wrath Revealed Against Sinful Humanity
23 And they transformed the Glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal man, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles. 24 Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies; 25 For they had substituted a lie for the truth about God, and had reverenced and worshiped created things more than the Creator, who is to be praised for ever. Amen.
Names
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 4:4
Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,
Matthew 15:14
Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind man guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch."
Acts 7:42
So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the Book of the Prophets--'Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, O House of Israel, all those forty years in the Desert?
Acts 14:16
In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.
Acts 17:29-30
Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone--a work of human art and imagination.
Romans 1:26-28
That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;
Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
1 Corinthians 6:13
Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
1 Corinthians 6:18
Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.
Ephesians 4:18-19
With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.
2 Timothy 2:20-22
Now in a large house there are not only things of gold and silver, but also others of wood and earthenware, some for better and some for common use.