Bible verses about "effeminate" | Goodspeed

²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

¹ Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news, ² which he promised long ago through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, ³ about his Son, who was physically descended from David, ⁴ and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead—Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen, ⁶ including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ— ⁷ to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace. ⁸ First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world. ⁹ As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray, ¹⁰ and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you. ¹¹ For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you; ¹² in other words, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith. ¹³ I want you to understand, brothers, that I have often intended to come to see you (though thus far I have been prevented) in order to produce some results among you, as well as among the rest of the heathen. ¹⁴ I owe a debt both to Greeks and to foreigners, to the cultivated and the uncultivated. ¹⁵ So, for my part, I am eager to preach the good news to you at Rome also. ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek. ¹⁷ In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith." ¹⁸ For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth. ¹⁹ For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them. ²⁰ Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine character—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse, ²¹ for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. ²² They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, ²³ and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles. ²⁴ So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies. ²⁵ For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen! ²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done. ²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct. ²⁹ They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature. ³⁰ They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful, ³¹ conscienceless, treacherous, unloving, and unpitying. ³² They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

⁴ Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom.

¹ When one of you has a disagreement with his neighbor, does he dare to bring the matter before a heathen court, instead of laying it before his Christian brothers? ² Do you not know that the Christians are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to come before you for judgment, are you unfit to decide the most trivial cases? ³ Do you not know that we are to be the judges of angels, to say nothing of ordinary matters? ⁴ If then you have ordinary matters to be settled, will you submit them for judgment to men who are nothing in the church? ⁵ I ask it to shame you. Has it come to this, that there is not a single wise man among you who could settle a disagreement between one brother and another, ⁶ but one Christian has to go to law with another, and before unbelievers too? ⁷ Having lawsuits with one another at all means your utter failure, to begin with. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be robbed? ⁸ But it is you who wrong and rob others, and your own brothers at that! ⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God. ¹² I may do anything I please, but not everything I may do is good for me. I may do anything I please; but I am not going to let anything master me. ¹³ It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve. ¹⁴ And as God raised the Lord to life, he will raise us also by his power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never! ¹⁶ Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes one body with her? For "The two," says the Scripture, "shall become physically one." ¹⁷ But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. ¹⁸ Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own; ²⁰ you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

¹⁰ immoral people, men sexually perverted, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, or whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice