Romanos 1:24

24 Por isso Deus os entregou, nas concupiscências de seus corações, � imundícia, para serem os seus corpos desonrados entre si;

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Romanos 1:24 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 1:24

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
Not by putting any into them, but by leaving them to the pollution of their nature; by withdrawing his providential restraints from them, and by giving them up to judicial hardness:

through the lusts of their own hearts.
The heart of man is the source of all wickedness; the lusts that dwell there are many, and these tend to uncleanness of one sort or another: by it here is meant particularly bodily uncleanness, since it is said they were given up

to dishonour their own bodies between themselves;
either alone, or with others; so that as they changed the glory of God, and dishonoured him, he left them to dishonour themselves by doing these things which were reproachful and scandalous to human nature.

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Romanos 1:24 In-Context

22 Dizendo-se sábios, tornaram-se estultos,
23 e mudaram a glória do Deus incorruptível em semelhança da imagem de homem corruptível, e de aves, e de quadrúpedes, e de répteis.
24 Por isso Deus os entregou, nas concupiscências de seus corações, � imundícia, para serem os seus corpos desonrados entre si;
25 pois trocaram a verdade de Deus pela mentira, e adoraram e serviram � criatura antes que ao Criador, que é bendito eternamente. Amém.
26 Pelo que Deus os entregou a paixões infames. Porque até as suas mulheres mudaram o uso natural no que é contrário � natureza;
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