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vain in their reasonings, and their heart, void of understanding, was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and
of birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God delivered them up in the desires of their hearts to uncleanness, so that their bodies
were dishonored among no them;
25 and these exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever: Amen.
26 For this reason God delivered them up to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the
natural use for that against nature,
27 and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust
one for another, males with males working the indecency, and receiving in themselves the due reward of
their error.
28 And as they did not approve of holding God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a mind
incapable of approving, that they might do things unbecoming,
29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness malice, covetousness; full of envy murder,
strife, deceit, malignity
30 whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boasters: inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
32 who, acknowledging the just decree of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death,
not only do them, but approve those that practice them.
Romans 2
1 Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art that judges! For in what thou judgest the
other, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 For we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, against those that practice such things.
3 But thinkest thou this, O man that judgest those who practice such things, and doest the same, that
thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not understanding
that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
5 But, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up for thyself wrath in a day of
wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who will render to each one according to his works;
7 to those that, by perseverance in good work, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
8 but to those that are of party-spirit, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and
indignation shall be rendered.
9 Affliction and anguish shall be on every soul of man that works out that which is evil, of the Jew first,
and also of the Greek;
10 but glory and honor and peace to every one that works that which is good, to the Jew first, and also to
the Greek.
11 For there is no acceptance of persons with God.
12 For as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under the law
shall be judged by the law;
13 for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers of law shall be declared righteous.
14 For whenever Gentiles, that have no law, do by nature the things of the law, these, not having law,
are a law to themselves:
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and
their reasonings between one another bringing accusation, or also making excuse
16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 But if thou art named Jew, and restest on the law, and makest thy boast in God,
18 and knowest his will, and provest things that differ, being instructed out of the law;
19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to those that are in darkness,
20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:
21 thou, then, that teachest another, teachest not thou thyself? Thou that preachest that men should not
steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest that men should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that
abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?
23 Thou that makest thy boast in the law, through transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of law, thy
circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 If, then, the uncircumcision keep the judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted
for circumcision?
27 And that which is by birth uncircumcision, if it keep the law, will judge thee, who with letter and
circumcision art a transgressor of law.
28 For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
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