23. They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for statues that looked like mortal humans, birds, animals, and snakes.
24. For this reason God allowed their lusts to control them. As a result, they dishonor their bodies by sexual perversion with each other.
25. These people have exchanged God’s truth for a lie. So they have become ungodly and serve what is created rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen!
26. For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
27. Likewise, their men have given up natural sexual relations with women and burn with lust for each other. Men commit indecent acts with men, so they experience among themselves the punishment they deserve for their perversion.
28. And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.
29. Their lives are filled with all kinds of sexual sins, wickedness, and greed. They are mean. They are filled with envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,
30. slanderers, haters of God, haughty, arrogant, and boastful. They think up new ways to be cruel. They don’t obey their parents,
31. don’t have any sense, don’t keep promises, and don’t show love to their own families or mercy to others.
32. Although they know God’s judgment that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do these things but also approve of others who do them.