Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ROMANS 1:24
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator who is forever praised. Amen. ROMANS 1:25
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ROMANS 1:26
In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another
Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. ROMANS 1:27
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. ROMANS 1:28
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, ROMANS 1:29
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ROMANS 1:30
they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ROMANS 1:31
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 approve of those who practice them. ROMANS 1:32
We worship our opportunity to determine the purpose of sexual intimacy. (1:24,25)
Paul indicates that while everything goes wrong for sinful human beings, sex goes wrong first and worst. GREG FORSTER
Outside the Church, people think of God as the great spoilsport of human sexuality, not its inventor
In a sex-saturated society, even true believers find it hard to accept that traditional Christian morality offers the fullest, most satisfying life. PHILIP YANCEY
If humanity serves as your religion, then sex becomes an act of worship
If God is the object of your religion, then romantic love becomes an unmistakable pointer, a rumor of transcendence as loud as any we hear on earth. PHILIP YANCEY
Sex is good, but sex is not God. It will not ultimately fulfill. Like anything else that becomes an idol, it will always take more than it gives. DAVID PLATT
We live in a culture that assumes a natural explanation implies a moral obligation. If you were born with a desire, then it s essential to your nature to carry it out. DAVID PLATT
Every time we think we ve hit the bottom of the abyss, we discover there are further depths we hadn t yet discovered, and nothing we do seems to stop the descent. GREG FORSTER
We worship our choice to distort the design of God for sexual expression. (1:26,27)
The Bible is clear and consistent, affirming with one voice from cover to cover that homosexual activity is sexual immorality before God. DAVID PLATT
Homosexual behavior is a sin because that act itself, as a truth suppressing exchange, is contrary to God s good design. KEVIN DEYOUNG
Differentiating between sexual orientation and sexual practice is a modern concept. JOHN STOTT
We are all personally, biologically, culturally, and spiritually predisposed toward sexual sin some of us are simply predisposed in ways that are more culturally acceptable. DAVID PLATT
Never with the [Bible s] perspective does sexuality become the basis for defining a person s identity or for finding meaning and fulfillment in life. RICHARD B. HAYS
When I looked into my heart through the lens of the Bible, I wondered, Am I a lesbian, or has this all been a case of mistaken identity? Who am I? Who will God have me to be?
I was a broken mess. Conversion was a train wreck. I did not want to lose everything that I loved. But I weakly believed that if Jesus could conquer death, He could make right my world. ROSARIA BUTTERFIELD
[This passage s primary focus is] not to rail against the dominance of the sexual sin in the culture around us but to expose the depth of sexual sin that lies within us. DAVID PLATT
We worship our capacity to flaunt the moral standards of God. (1:28 32)
If you suppress your conscience long enough, you eventually will not be able to tell good from evil
Every time you rationalize your sin, you harden your heart, you put a callus on your conscience, and you put your soul in mortal danger. DENNY BURK
We are not only bent on damning ourselves but we congratulate others in the doing of those things that we know [will result] in damnation. DOUGLAS MOO
[In Romans 1], Paul is offering a diagnosis of the disordered human condition. God s wrath takes the form of letting human idolatry run its own selfdestructive course. RICHARD B. HAYS
The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved. C.S. LEWIS
Because we have not acknowledged God, He has released us to swim in our own chosen cesspool every one of us.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9
nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:10
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:11