Romans 1:24 — Compare Translations

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Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Wherefore God gave them up [also] in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves:

English EASY 2024

So God let those people do all the bad things that they wanted to do. God let those disgusting things rule their lives. As a result, they did bad things with each other's bodies. They did things that people should be ashamed to do.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

People wanted only to do evil. So God left them and let them go their sinful way. And so they became completely immoral and used their bodies in shameful ways with each other.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

English God's Word - GW 1995

For this reason God allowed their lusts to control them. As a result, they dishonor their bodies by sexual perversion with each other.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Therefore God gave them up to impurity through the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

So God let them go. He allowed them to do what their sinful hearts wanted to. He let them commit sexual sins. They polluted one another's bodies by what they did.

English NIV

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

English NKJ 1982

Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

English NLT

So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

This is why God lifted off his restraining hand and let them have full expression of their sinful and shameful desires. They were given over to moral depravity, dishonoring their bodies by sexual perversion among themselves—

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

So God let them go ahead into every sort of sex sin, and do whatever they wanted to—yes, vile and sinful things with each other's bodies.

English Tyndale 1537

For this cause(Wherefore) God (like wise) gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves: