1:8 First of all, 1 I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1:24 Therefore God gave them over 2 in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor 3 their bodies among themselves. 4
1:26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, 5
13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
14:19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.
15:7 Receive one another, then, just as Christ also received you, to God’s glory.
1 tn Grk “First.” Paul never mentions a second point, so J. B. Phillips translated “I must begin by telling you….”
2 sn Possibly an allusion to Ps 81:12.
3 tn The genitive articular infinitive τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι (tou atimazesqai, “to dishonor”) has been taken as (1) an infinitive of purpose; (2) an infinitive of result; or (3) an epexegetical (i.e., explanatory) infinitive, expanding the previous clause.
4 tn Grk “among them.”
3 tn Grk “for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is contrary to nature.” The term χρῆσις (crhsi") has the force of “sexual relations” here (L&N 23.65).