For not to natural conception, nor to human instincts, nor to will of man did they owe the new Life, but to God.

As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

But Jesus meant that he was dead; they, however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.

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;

They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.

For, if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

If you were cut off from your natural stock--a wild olive-- and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, upon a good olive, much more will they--the natural branches--be grafted back into their parent tree.