Romans 1:24

Bible in Basic English

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore God also gaue them vp to vncleannesse, through the lusts of their owne hearts, to dishonour their owne bodies betweene themselues:

King James Version
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

English Standard Version
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

New American Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

New Century Version
Because they did these things, God left them and let them go their sinful way, wanting only to do evil. As a result, they became full of sexual sin, using their bodies wrongly with each other.

Amplified Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Contemporary English Version
So God let these people go their own way. They did what they wanted to do, and their filthy thoughts made them do shameful things with their bodies.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts' lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other's bodies.

Darby Translation
Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

Easy-to-Read Version
People wanted only to do evil. So God left them and let them go their sinful way. And so they became completely immoral and used their bodies in shameful ways with each other.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore also God gaue them vp to their hearts lusts, vnto vncleannesse, to defile their owne bodies betweene themselues:

George Lamsa Translation
That is why God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

Good News Translation
And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, that their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,

Literal Translation
Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves,

American Standard Version
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
Because of this Aloha delivered them up to the unclean lusts of their hearts, that they would debase their bodies among them.

Murdock Translation
For this cause, God gave them up to the filthy lusts of their heart, to dishonor their bodies with them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues.

English Revised Version
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves:

World English Bible
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness in the desires of their hearts, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Weymouth's New Testament
For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing God bitook hem in to the desiris of her herte, in to vnclennesse, that thei punysche with wrongis her bodies in hem silf.

Update Bible Version
Therefore God gave them up in the desires of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies should be shamed among themselves:

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:

New English Translation
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

New King James Version
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

New Living Translation
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.

New Life Bible
So God let them follow the desires of their sinful hearts. They did sinful things among themselves with their bodies.

New Revised Standard
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore God gave them up in the covetings of their hearts unto impurity, so as to be dishonouring their bodies among them, -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore god lykewyse gave the vp vnto their hertes lustes vnto vnclennes to defyle their awne boddyes bitwene them selves:

Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore God likewyse gaue them vp vnto their hertes lustes in to vnclennes, to defyle their awne bodies in them selues,

Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore God abandon'd them to the impure passions of their own hearts, so that they themselves dishonour'd their own bodies;

THE MESSAGE
So God said, in effect, "If that's what you want, that's what you get." It wasn't long before they were living in a pigpen, smeared with filth, filthy inside and out. And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!

Simplified Cowboy Version
And so God has let them throw their souls into the pig pen of their nasty desires. The wallow around on each other like flies on crap.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. ²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: ²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. ²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, ²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. ²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: ²⁵ Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. 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;

Bible Verse Review
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God: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Hosea 4:17, Hosea 4:18, Matthew 15:14, Acts 7:42, Acts 14:16, Acts 17:29, Acts 17:30, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

through the lusts: Romans 6:12

to dishonour: 1 Corinthians 6:13, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:4, 2 Timothy 2:20-22

between: Romans 1:27, Leviticus 18:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:5 - General Genesis 19:7 - General 1 Kings 14:24 - And there Jeremiah 4:10 - surely Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Luke 15:15 - to feed Romans 1:26 - gave them Romans 9:18 - will he Ephesians 2:3 - in the Ephesians 4:19 - given Ephesians 5:12 - it 1 Thessalonians 4:5 - in the 2 Peter 2:10 - in the

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

Genesis 1:10
And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.

Genesis 7:14
And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

Genesis 8:19
And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

Job 39:1
Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

Job 39:5
Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?

Job 39:9
Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

Job 39:19
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?

Job 40:15
See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,.... Not by putting any into them, but by leaving them to the pollution of their nature; by withdrawing his providential restraints from them, and by giving them up to judicial hardness:

through the lusts of their own hearts. The heart of man is the source of all wickedness; the lusts that dwell there are many, and these tend to uncleanness of one sort or another: by it here is meant particularly bodily uncleanness, since it is said they were given up

to dishonour their own bodies between themselves; either alone, or with others; so that as they changed the glory of God, and dishonoured him, he left them to dishonour themselves by doing these things which were reproachful and scandalous to human nature.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - 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 any positive influence in inducing them to sin, any more than it would if we should seek, by argument and entreaty, to restrain a headstrong youth, and when neither would prevail, should leave him to act out his propensities. and to go as he chose to ruin. It is implied in this,

1. That the tendency of man was to these sins;
2. That the tendency of idolatry was to promote them; and,
3. That all that was needful, in order that people should commit them, was for God to leave him to follow the devices and desires of his own heart; compare Psalms 81:12; 2Th 2:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:12.

To uncleanness - To impurity, or moral defilement; particularly to those impurities which he proceeds to specify, Romans 1:26, etc.

Through the lusts of their own hearts - Or, in consequence of their own evil and depraved passions and desires. He left them to act out, or manifest, their depraved affections and inclinations.

To dishonour - To disgrace; Romans 1:26-27.

Between themselves - Among themselves; or mutually. They did it by unlawful and impure connections with one another.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 24. God-gave them up, c.] 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 1:26-27.

Between themselves — ενεαυτοις, Of themselves, of their own free accord none inciting, none impelling.