Romans 1:18 – 32New International Version (NIV)

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heav­en against all the god­less­ness and wicked­ness of peo­ple, who sup­press the truth by their wicked­ness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the cre­ation of the world God’s invis­i­ble qual­i­ties — his eter­nal pow­er and divine nature — have been clear­ly seen, being under­stood from what has been made, so that peo­ple are with­out excuse.

²¹ For although they knew God, they nei­ther glo­ri­fied him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their think­ing became futile and their fool­ish hearts were dark­ened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glo­ry of the immor­tal God for images made to look like a mor­tal human being and birds and ani­mals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sin­ful desires of their hearts to sex­u­al impu­ri­ty for the degrad­ing of their bod­ies with one anoth­er. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and wor­shiped and served cre­at­ed things rather than the Creator — who is for­ev­er praised. Amen.

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shame­ful lusts. Even their women exchanged nat­ur­al sex­u­al rela­tions for unnat­ur­al ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also aban­doned nat­ur­al rela­tions with women and were inflamed with lust for one anoth­er. Men com­mit­ted shame­ful acts with oth­er men, and received in them­selves the due penal­ty for their error.

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worth­while to retain the knowl­edge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they 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 ways of doing evil; they dis­obey their par­ents; ³¹ they have no under­stand­ing, no fideli­ty, no love, no mer­cy.³² Although they know God’s right­eous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only con­tin­ue to do these very things but also approve­of those who prac­tice them.