But My people would not heed My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Let him alone.

Their drink is rebellion. They are continually committing fornication. Her defenders dearly love disgrace.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, 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 past generations allowed all nations to go in their own ways.

Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine is like gold or silver or stone, something engraved by art and man's devising.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth but had pleasure 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 it and them. Now the body is not for sexual perversion but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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

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

But 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.

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

Likewise also the men, abandoning the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men performing what is shameful, and receiving the retribution within themselves, the penalty which is fitting for their error.

You shall not lie with a male as with a female. It is an abomination.