Romans 1:28
26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
29 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,
30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- KJV
- And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- WEB
- Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- ASV
- And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- DARBY
- And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;
- BLB
- And just as they did not see fit to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to an unfit mind, to do the [things] not being proper;
- ÅB
- Og siden de ikke brydde seg om å eie Gud i kunnskap, gav Gud dem over til et sinn som ikke duger, så de gjorde det usømmelige:
- OTB
- Videre, akkurat som de ikke anså det som verdt å beholde kunnskapen om Gud, overga Gud dem til et fordervet sinn, til å gjøre det som ikke burde gjøres.
- B1930
- Og likesom de ikke brydde sig om å eie Gud i kunnskap, så overgav Gud dem til et sinn som intet duer, så de gjorde det usømmelige:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Read in contextRomans 1:21
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Read in contextTitus 1:16
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:6
You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextRomans 1:24
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
Read in context2 Timothy 3:8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.
Read in contextRomans 8:7–8
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Read in contextProverbs 5:12–13
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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