Romans 1:24

Romans 1:24 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

Context of Romans 1:24

22Claiming to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen. 26For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:24 word by word

Διὸ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν εἰς ἀκαθαρσίαν τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Whereforeδιόdio · thereforeG1352
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• gaveπαραδίδωμιparadidōmi · to deliverG3860
• themαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• uncleannessἀκαθαρσίαakatharsia · impurityG167
• throughἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• the lustsἐπιθυμίαepithumia · desireG1939
• heartsκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• to dishonourἀτιμάζωatimazō · to dishonorG818
• bodiesσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• themselvesἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438

Cross-references for Romans 1:24

• Psalms 81:11“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me.
• Hosea 4:17Ephraim is attached to idols; leave him alone!
• Matthew 15:14Leave them alone! They are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
• Acts 7:42God turned away and gave them up to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: House of Israel, did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness?
• Acts 14:16In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own way,
• Acts 17:29Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.
• Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.
• Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:4that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
• 2 Timothy 2:20Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also those of wood and clay; some for honorable use and some for dishonorable.
• Romans 1:27The men in the same way also left natural relations with women and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.
• Leviticus 18:22You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

Commentaries on Romans 1:24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24God - gave them up, etc. - They had filled up the measure of their iniquities, and God, by permitting them to plunge into all manner of irregularities, thus, by one species of sin, inflicted punishment on another. Dishonour their own bodies - Probably alluding here to what is more openly expressed, Romans 1:26, Romans 1:27. Between themselves - , Of themselves, of their own free accord; none inciting, none impelling.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Wherefore - That is, because they were unwilling to retain him in their knowledge, and chose to worship idols. Here is traced the practical tendency of paganism; not as an innocent and harmless system, but as resulting in the most gross and shameless acts of depravity. God gave them up - He abandoned them, or he ceased to restrain them, and suffered them to act out their sentiments, and to manifest them in their life. This does not imply, that he exerted…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he has fulfilled all his obligations to God and to his neighbour; nor can any truly say that he has fully acted up to the light afforded him. The sinfulness of man is described as ungodliness against the laws of the first table, and unrighteousness against…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24When people replaced the living God with idols (false gods), God abandoned them. Paul emphasizes this point twice more in this paragraph (1:26, 28). The phrase gave them over suggests that God actively allows people to experience the consequences of their sin.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. Wherefore God also--in righteous retribution. gave them up--This divine abandonment of men is here strikingly traced in three successive stages, at each of which the same word is used (Ro 1:24, 26; and Ro 1:28, where the word is rendered "gave over"). "As they deserted God, God in turn deserted them; not giving them divine (that is, supernatural) laws, and suffering them to corrupt those which were human; not sending them prophets, and allowing the…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 1:24

• Conscience
• Crime
• Gentiles
• Holy Spirit
• Idolatry
• Lasciviousness
• Rome
• Sodomy
• Wicked (People)

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• Call
• Creation
• Dark
• Despiteful
• Faith
• Fall of man
• Idolatry

Commentaries on Romans 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings