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“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.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory
of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man
and birds and animals and reptiles.”
“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts
to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things
rather than the Creator – who is forever praised, Amen”
“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts.
Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
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.”
“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.
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, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things
deserve death, they not only continue to do those very things
but also approve of those who practice them.”
Just in case you haven't figured it out yet...this is Paul writing in Romans 1:21-32.
Wow! Doesn't it sound just like our modern world?
As the Teacher (whom we believe to be King Solomon) wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:9;
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
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