Bible verses about "gay" | Twentieth_Century

²⁴ Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies; ²⁵ For they had substituted a lie for the truth about God, and had reverenced and worshiped created things more than the Creator, who is to be praised for ever. Amen. ²⁶ 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; ²⁷ While the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.

¹ Therefore you have nothing to say in your own defense, whoever you are who set yourself up as a judge. In judging others you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do the very same things. ² And we know that God's judgment falls unerringly upon those who do them. ³ You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them-do you suppose that you of all men will escape God's judgment? ⁴ Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realizing that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵ Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed; ⁶ For 'he will give to every man what his actions deserve.' ⁷ To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life; ⁸ While as to those who are factious, and disobedient to Truth but obedient to Evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair, ⁹ Will fall upon every human being who persists in wrong-doing- -upon the Jew first, but also upon the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory, honor, and peace for every one who does right-for the Jew first, but also for the Greek, ¹¹ Since God shows no partiality. ¹² All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law. ¹³ It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous. ¹⁴ When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves; ¹⁵ For they show the demands of the Law written upon their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self- defense-- ¹⁶ On the day when God passes judgment on men's inmost lives, as the Good News that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus. ¹⁷ But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will, ¹⁸ And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions. ¹⁹ Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent, ²⁰ And a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth. ²¹ Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? ²² Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? ²³ Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? ²⁴ For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'! ²⁵ Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the Law. But, if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision. ²⁶ If, then, an uncircumcised man pays regard to the requirements of the Law, will not he, although not circumcised, be regarded by God as if he were? ²⁷ Indeed, the man who, owing to his birth, remains uncircumcised, and yet scrupulously obeys the Law, will condemn you, who, for all your written Law and your circumcision, are yet a breaker of the Law. ²⁸ For a man who is only a Jew outwardly is not a real Jew; nor is outward bodily circumcision real circumcision. The real Jew is the man who is a Jew in soul; ²⁹ And the real circumcision is the circumcision of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal thing. Such a man wins praise from God, though not from men.

⁷ I should wish every one to be just what I am myself. But every one has his own gift from God-one in one way, and one in another. ⁸ My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be well for them to remain as I am myself. ⁹ But, if they cannot control themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.

¹² There is only one Lawgiver and Judge--he who has the power both to save and to destroy. But who are you that pass judgment on your neighbor?

⁹ by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers, ¹⁰ for the immoral, for people guilty of sodomy, for slave-dealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching--

³⁹ The second, which is like it, is this--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

⁸ Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

²⁶ 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; ²⁷ While the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.

⁸ Owe nothing to any one except brotherly love; for he who loves his fellow men has satisfied the Law. ⁹ The commandments, 'Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet,' and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words--'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.' ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbor. Therefore Love fully satisfies the Law.

²⁸ All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and freeman, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

¹⁴ Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept- -'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thou dost thyself.'

⁶ But, at the beginning of the Creation, God 'made them male and female.' ⁷ 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, ⁸ And the man and his wife shall become one;' so that they are no longer two, but one. ⁹ What God himself, then, has yoked together man must not separate."

⁴ Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

⁷ Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.

⁹ Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite, ¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ¹¹ Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

²⁶ 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; ²⁷ While the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness. ²⁸ Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.