Bible verses about "gay" | CLV

²⁴ Wherefore God gives them over, in the lusts of their hearts, to the uncleanness of dishonoring their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ those who alter the truth of God into the lie, and are venerated, and offer divine service to the creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed for the eons! Amen!" ²⁶ Therefore God gives them over to dishonorable passions. For their females, besides, alter the natural use into that which is beside nature." ²⁷ Likewise also the males, besides, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving for one another, males with males effecting indecency, and getting back in themselves the retribution of their deception which must be."

¹ Wherefore, defenseless are you, O man! everyone who is judging, for in what you are judging another, you are condemning yourself, for you who are judging are committing the same things." ² Now we are aware that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who are committing such things. ³ Yet are you reckoning on this, O man, who art judging those committing such things, and art doing the same, that you will be escaping the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you despising the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ Yet, in accord with your hardness and unrepentant heart you are hoarding for yourself indignation in the day of indignation and revelation of the just judgment of God, ⁶ Who will be paying each one in accord with his acts: ⁷ to those, indeed, who by endurance in good acts are seeking glory and honor and incorruption, life eonian;" ⁸ yet to those of faction and stubborn, indeed, as to the truth, yet persuaded to injustice, indignation and fury, ⁹ affliction and distress, on every human soul which is effecting evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek, ¹⁰ yet glory and honor and peace to every worker of good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek." ¹¹ For there is no partiality with God, ¹² for whoever sinned without the law, without law also shall perish, and whoever sinned in law, through law will be judged." ¹³ For not the listeners to law are just with God, but the doers of law shall be justified." ¹⁴ For whenever they of the nations that have no law, by nature may be doing that which the law demands, these, having no law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ who are displaying the action of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together and their reckonings between one another, accusing or defending them, ¹⁶ in the day when God will be judging the hidden things of humanity, according to my evangel, through Jesus Christ." ¹⁷ Lo! you are being denominated a Jew, and are resting on law, and are boasting in God, ¹⁸ and know the will, and are testing what things are of consequence, being instructed out of the law." ¹⁹ Besides, you have confidence in yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a discipliner of the imprudent, a teacher of minors, having the form of knowledge and the truth in the law." ²¹ You, then, who are teaching another, you are not teaching yourself! who are heralding not to be stealing, you are stealing!" ²² who are saying not to be committing adultery, you are committing adultery! who are abominating idols, you are despoiling the sanctuary!" ²³ who are boasting in a law, through the transgression of the law you are dishonoring God!" ²⁴ For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the nations, according as it is written." ²⁵ For circumcision, indeed, is benefiting if you should be putting law into practice, yet if you should be a transgressor of law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision." ²⁶ If the Uncircumcision, then, should be maintaining the just requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? ²⁷ And the Uncircumcision who, by nature, are discharging the law's demands, shall be judging you, who through letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of law." ²⁸ For not that which is apparent is the Jew, nor yet that which is apparent in flesh is circumcision;" ²⁹ but that which is hidden is the Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose applause is not of men, but of God."

⁷ For I want all men to be as I myself also, but each has his own gracious gift from God, one indeed, thus, yet one thus." ⁸ Now I am saying to the unmarried and the widows, that it is ideal for them if ever they should be remaining even as I." ⁹ Yet if they are not controlling themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire."

¹² One is Lawgiver and Judge, Who is able to save and to destroy. Now who are you who are judging an associate?

⁹ being aware of this, that law is not laid down for the just, yet it is for the lawless and insubordinate, the irreverent and sinners, the malign and profane, thrashers of fathers and thrashers of mothers, homicides, ¹⁰ paramours, sodomites, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and if any other thing is opposing sound teaching,

³⁹ Yet the second is like it: 'You shall be loving your associate as yourself.'

⁸ Now if anyone is not providing for his own, and especially his family, he has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever."

²⁶ Therefore God gives them over to dishonorable passions. For their females, besides, alter the natural use into that which is beside nature." ²⁷ Likewise also the males, besides, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving for one another, males with males effecting indecency, and getting back in themselves the retribution of their deception which must be."

⁸ To no one owe anything, except to be loving one another, for he who is loving another has fulfilled law." ⁹ For this: "You shall not commit adultery,you shall not murder,you shall not steal,you shall not testify falsely,you shall not covet,and if there is any other precept, it is summed up in this saying, in this: "You shall love your associate as yourself." ¹⁰ Love is not working evil to an associate. The complement, then, of law, is love."

²⁸ in Whom there is no Jew nor yet Greek, there is no slave nor yet free, there is no male and female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus."

¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your associate as yourself."

⁶ Yet from the beginning of creation God makes them male and female. ⁷ On this account a man will be leaving his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, ⁸ and the two will be one flesh. So that no longer are they two, but one flesh." ⁹ What God, then, yokes together, let not man be separating."

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner to these committing ultra-prostitution, and coming away after other flesh, are lying before us, a specimen, experiencing the justice of fire eonian."

⁴ May matrimony be honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, for paramours and adulterers will God be judging."

²² With a male you shall not lie as if going to bed with a woman. This is an abhorrence.

⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom." ¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God."

²⁶ Therefore God gives them over to dishonorable passions. For their females, besides, alter the natural use into that which is beside nature." ²⁷ Likewise also the males, besides, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their craving for one another, males with males effecting indecency, and getting back in themselves the retribution of their deception which must be." ²⁸ And according as they do not test God, to have Him in recognition, God gives them over to a disqualified mind, to do that which is not befitting,