Romans 1:16-24

¹⁶For I am not ashamed of the gospel; for to every believer, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, it is the power of God unto salvation.

¹⁷For therein is revealed the righteousness which is of God from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

¹⁸For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, who keep down the truth in unrighteousness.

¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest within them; for God made it manifest to them.

²⁰For, ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, even his eternal power and divinity, being perceived from his works, are clearly seen, so that they might be without excuse.

²¹Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

²²professing to be wise, they became fools,

²³and for the glory of the incorruptible God they substituted images of corruptible man, and of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

²⁴Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;