But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

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} forty years in the wilderness?

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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: {blindness: or, hardness}

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:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it {is} abomination.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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. {Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind}

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Ephraim {is} joined to idols: let him alone.

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.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}

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:

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; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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} forty years in the wilderness?

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

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. {government: or, dominion}

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will {have mercy}, and whom he will he hardeneth.

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.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter {also}, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}