23. instead of worshipping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortal human beings or birds or animals or reptiles.
24. And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.
25. They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised for ever! Amen.
26. Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.
27. In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.
28. Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.
29. They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip
30. and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents;
31. they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.
32. They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.