And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel.

[This translation omits this verse.]

For this reason God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for even their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,

and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

And he walked in the sins of his father which he wrought in his presence, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as [was] the heart of his father [David].

Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon.

And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.

And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and [planted] groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

And he did that which was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.

and he told Judah to seek earnestly the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments.

And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk not in the customs of your fathers, and keep not their ordinances, and have no fellowship with their practices, nor defile yourselves [with them].

I [am] the Lord your God; walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them;

The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.

And be not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they did not hear, nor heed Me, says the Lord.

But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,