But My people hearkened not to My voice; and Israel gave no heed to Me.

So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts; they will go on in their own ways.

Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.

He has chosen the Canaanites: they have grievously gone a-whoring: they have loved dishonor through her insolence.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."

But God turned away and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

who in the generations having gone by permitted all the Gentiles to walk in their ways.

"Therefore, being the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and the imagination of man.

So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

having been darkened in understanding, being estranged from the life of God, because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts,

Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both this [stomach] and these [foods]. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor.

Flee youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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.

And you shall not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.