Romans 1:16-32
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith; as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath
shown it unto them.
For the invisible things Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being
understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead;
so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were
they thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart
was
darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves;
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature
more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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 likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
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:
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness: full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity: whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things,
disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Until you've known the loving hand
that reaches down to a fallen man,
And lifts him up from out of sin where he has trod:
Until you've known just how it feels
to know that God is really real,
Then you've known nothing until you've known the love of God.