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Romans 1:24

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

KJV

διὸ παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς ὁ θεὸς ἐν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν εἰς ἀκαθαρσίαν τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι τὰ σώματα αὐτῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς,

Greek NT

Propter quod tradidit illos Deus in desideria cordis eorum, in immunditiam, ut contumeliis afficiant corpora sua in semetipsis :

Vulgate

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

ASV

Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διό
dio
conjunction · 52×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καρδία
kardia
noun · 156×
παραδίδωμι
paradidomi
verb · 119×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἀκαθαρσία
akatharsia
noun · 10×
ἀτιμάζω
atimazo
verb · 7×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐπιθυμία
epithumia
noun · 38×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Διὸ | WH/Treg/NIV: Διὸ | RP: + καὶ
  • ΔιὸSBLGNT
  • ΔιὸWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + καὶRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: αὐτοῖς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῖς | RP: ἑαυτοῖς
  • αὐτοῖςSBLGNT
  • αὐτοῖςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἑαυτοῖςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§57This state of division into many nations, each entrusted by divine providence to the guardianship of angels, is at once cosmic, social and religious. It is intended to limit the pride of fallen humanity10 united only in its perverse ambition to forge its own unity as at Babel.11 But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly thr…
§401After that first sin, the world is virtually inundated by sin There is Cain's murder of his brother Abel and the universal corruption which follows in the wake of sin. Likewise, sin frequently manifests itself in the history of Israel, especially as infidelity to the God of the Covenant and as transgression of the Law of Moses. and even after Christ's atonement, sin raises its …
§2087Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the "obedience of faith"9 as our first obligation. He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations.10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210203.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the Manichæans. Chapter 1. Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. 1. To Carthage I came, where a cauldr…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:13 — Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
  • 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  • 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  • 1Kgs 14:24 — And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
  • 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
  • 2Pet 2:10 — But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
  • 2Thess 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
  • 2Tim 2:20 — But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
  • Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
  • Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
  • Acts 14:16 — Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
  • Acts 17:29 — Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
  • Eph 4:18 — Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
  • Eph 4:19 — Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  • Eph 5:12 — For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
  • Hos 4:17 — Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
  • Lev 18:22 — Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
  • Matt 15:14 — Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • Ps 81:11 — But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
  • Ps 81:12 — So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
  • Rom 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
  • Rom 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
  • Rom 1:28 — 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;
  • Rom 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
  • Rom 9:18 — Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.