Romans 1:18-28

¹⁸Now the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of the people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,

¹⁹precisely because what may be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.

²⁰Because His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature, are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood from what has been made, so that they are inexcusable;

²¹precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened.

²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

²³and exchanged for themselves the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling a perishable man—even birds and quadrupeds and reptiles!

²⁴Therefore God also gave them up, through the cravings of their hearts for vileness, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves

²⁵—they had exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

²⁶For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature;

²⁷likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

²⁸So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things: