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and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
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Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,
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because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
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For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,
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and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
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And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
