Romans 1:27-32

1:27 and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women ¹  and were inflamed in their passions ²  for one another. Men ³  committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ⁴  God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. ⁵  1:29 They are filled ⁶  with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with ⁷  envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, ⁸  heartless, ruthless. 1:32 Although they fully know ⁹  God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, ¹⁰  they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them. ¹¹ 

[1:27]  ¹ tn Grk “likewise so also the males abandoning the natural function of the female.”

[1:27]  ² tn Grk “burned with intense desire” (L&N 25.16).

[1:27]  ³ tn Grk “another, men committing…and receiving,” continuing the description of their deeds. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:28]  ⁴ tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”

[1:28]  ⁵ tn Grk “the things that are improper.”

[1:29]  ⁶ tn Grk “being filled” or “having been filled,” referring to those described in v. 28. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:29]  ⁷ tn Grk “malice, full of,” continuing the description. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:31]  ⁸ tn Or “promise-breakers.”

[1:32]  ⁹ tn Grk “who, knowing…, not only do them but also approve…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:32]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “are worthy of death.”

[1:32]  ¹¹ sn “Vice lists” like vv. 28-32 can be found elsewhere in the NT in Matt 15:19; Gal 5:19-21; 1 Tim 1:9-10; and 1 Pet 4:3. An example from the intertestamental period can be found in Wis 14:25-26.