Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the near-by cities which in like manner glutted themselves in sensuality and unnatural vice, are exhibited as a warning of the eternal fire, in the punishment they undergo.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.