Romans 1:24 Cross References - Moffatt

²⁴ So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, —

¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

⁴² So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host — as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

¹⁶ In bygone ages he allowed all nations to go their own ways,

²⁹ Well, as the race of God, we ought not to imagine that the divine nature resembles gold or silver or stone, the product of human art and invention. ³⁰ Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

²⁶ That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity. ²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

¹² Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions; ¹³ 'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

¹⁸ Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

¹⁸ their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them — ¹⁹ men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

⁴ that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably,

¹⁰ and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them. ¹¹ Therefore God visits them with an active delusion, till they put faith in falsehood, ¹² so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

²⁰ In any great house there are indeed vessels not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for noble, some for menial service. ²¹ If one will only keep clear of the latter, he will be put to noble use, he will be consecrated and useful to the Owner of the House, he will be set apart for good work of all kinds. ²² So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.