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

22professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into [the] likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles. Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves: 25who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created [it], who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature;

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

• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• lustsἐπιθυμίαepithumia · desireG1939
• heartsκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• bodiesσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983

Cross-references for Romans 1:24

• Psalms 81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
• Hosea 4:17— Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.
• Matthew 15:14Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
• Acts 7:42But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
• Acts 14:16who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,
• Acts 17:29Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, [the] graven form of man's art and imagination.
• Ephesians 4:18being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.
• Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:4that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
• 2 Timothy 2:20But in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthen; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
• Romans 1:27and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.
• Leviticus 18:22And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.

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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• God
• Affection
• Call
• Creation
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• Faith
• Fall of man
• Lie
• Manifest

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