For this reason, God abandoned them to their degrading passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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.

for if God did not spare 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 will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

However that which is spiritual is not first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,