'Nature' in the Bible
For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;
and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches , be grafted into their own olive tree?
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in that world by lust.