Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: |
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, |
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. |
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another |
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin]. |
On which account God delivered them over in the passionate cravings of their hearts to bestial profligacy which had for its purpose the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves; |
and therefore God gave them up – to be the playthings of their own foul desires in dishonouring their own bodies. |
So God has given them up to sexual impurity, in the evil trend of their heart’s desires, so that they degrade their own bodies with one another, |
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