Monday, October 18, 2004

Romans 1:18: The Wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what my be known about God, is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – has eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Romans 1:21: For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but heir thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Romans 1:24: Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires in their hearts to sexual impurity of the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator…

Romans 1:26: Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women natural relations for the unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and wee inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Romans 1:28: Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

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