22 While they were claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves.
23 They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that look like mortal humans: birds, animals, and reptiles.
24 So God abandoned them to their hearts’ desires, which led to the moral corruption of degrading their own bodies with each other.
25 They traded God’s truth for a lie, and they worshipped and served the creation instead of the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 That’s why God abandoned them to degrading lust. Their females traded natural sexual relations for unnatural sexual relations.
27 Also, in the same way, the males traded natural sexual relations with females, and burned with lust for each other. Males performed shameful actions with males, and they were paid back with the penalty they deserved for their mistake in their own bodies.
28 Since they didn’t think it was worthwhile to acknowledge God, God abandoned them to a defective mind to do inappropriate things.