22 When they [a]professed themselves to be wise, they became fools.

23 For they turned the glory of the [b]incorruptible God to the similitude of the image of a corruptible man, and of birds, and four footed beasts, and of creeping things.

24 [c]Wherefore [d]also God [e]gave them up to their hearts lusts, unto uncleanness, to defile their own bodies between themselves:

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 1:22 Or thought themselves.
  2. Romans 1:23 For the true God they took another.
  3. Romans 1:24 The unrighteousness of men he setteth forth first, in this, that even against nature following their lusts, they defiled themselves one with another, by the just judgment of God.
  4. Romans 1:24 The contempt of religion, is the fountain of all mischief.
  5. Romans 1:24 As a just judge.

22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(A) 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(B) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

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

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