For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
God delivered them to degrading passions because they abandoned His glory for idols. Women reversed the order of nature itself, a crime even beasts abhor. Paul catalogs vices that plagued every age, not claiming all men were murderers or thieves, but that none escaped some corruption; all stand polluted.
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In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe, I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God. Though they had not such a knowledge of his law as Jacob and Israel had (Psa 147:20), yet among them he left not himself without witness (Act...
Commenting on Romans 1:19-32
God abandoned them to vile affections because of their idolatry. Women perverted nature in sodomitical acts, whether complying with men's unnatural demands or using their own bodies in ways nature never intended. The heathen writers and Jewish sources confirm these practices were widespread.
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