For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions; for both their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

and, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their desires one for another; men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error, which was due.

without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful;

For, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will He spare you.

For, if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?