Romans 1:24

24 So God abandoned them to their hearts' desires, which led to the moral corruption of degrading their own bodies with each other.

Romans 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.

Romans 1:24 In-Context

22 While they were claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves.
23 They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that look like mortal humans: birds, animals, and reptiles.
24 So God abandoned them to their hearts' desires, which led to the moral corruption of degrading their own bodies with each other.
25 They traded God's truth for a lie, and they worshipped and served the creation instead of the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 That's why God abandoned them to degrading lust. Their females traded natural sexual relations for unnatural sexual relations.
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