⁴² But God ^(A)turned away and gave them over to ^[a]serve the heavenly ^[b]lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘^(B)You did not offer Me victims and sacrifices ^(C)for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

²⁴ Therefore ^(A)God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be ^(B)dishonored among them.

²⁶ For this reason ^(A)God gave them over to ^(B)degrading passions; for their women exchanged natural relations for that which is contrary to nature,