Romans 1:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

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  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Gen 19:5 : 5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
  • Lev 18:22-28 : 22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing. 23 And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act. 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: 25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. 26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: 27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) 28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:
  • Eph 4:19 : 19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.
  • Eph 5:12 : 12 For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
  • Jude 1:10 : 10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • Deut 23:17-18 : 17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man. 18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

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  • Rom 1:27-29
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    27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

    28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

    29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

  • Rom 1:18-25
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    18 For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

    19 Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.

    20 For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

    21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

    22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

    23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

    25 Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

  • Jude 1:6-8
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    6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

    7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

    8 In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31 Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

    32 Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • Lev 18:22
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    22 You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

  • 1 Cor 6:9
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    9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

  • Rom 2:2
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    2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • Mark 10:6
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    6 But from the first, male and female made he them.

  • Lev 20:13
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    13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    39 So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

  • 2 Thess 2:10-12
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    10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

    11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

    12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6 For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

  • Col 3:6
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    6 Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

  • 2 Tim 3:2-3
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    2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

    3 Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

  • Lev 18:27
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    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

  • Jude 1:10
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    10 But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
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    24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

  • Jude 1:19
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    19 These are the men who make divisions, natural men, not having the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 11:9
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    9 And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10 But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

  • Titus 1:16
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    16 They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
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    10 In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

    11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • Gen 13:13
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    13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12 And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;