Romans 1:24 Cross References - BBE

²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

²² You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

¹¹ But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. ¹² So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be. ¹⁸ Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

¹⁴ Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

⁴² But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

¹⁶ Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.

²⁹ If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man. ³⁰ Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: ²⁷ And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing. ²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

¹² For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires; ¹³ Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

¹⁸ Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

¹⁸ Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard; ¹⁹ Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

⁴ So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

¹⁰ And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. ¹¹ And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: ¹² So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

²⁰ Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour. ²¹ If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work. ²² But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.