Monday, March 14, 2005

Romans 1:18-32 NIV

(18)The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,(19) since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God made it plain to them.(20) For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. (21)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. (22)Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools (23) and exchanged the glory of the imortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and amimals and reptiles. (24)Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hears to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. (25)They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. (26)Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural realtions for unnatural ones. (27)In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men comitted indecent acts with other men, and recieved in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (28) 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. (29)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, (30)slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;they invent ways of doing evil;they disobey thier parents; (31)they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (32) Althought 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 1:18-32


Here is what I took away from this...people are not born gay, murderers and such. They are given over to it because they worship other things instead of God.

When you read this what do you get from it?

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