ipped and paid divine honours to the thing created instead of
the Creator, who is blessed for evermore. Amen.

(26)For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even
their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to
nature; (27)and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men
committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of
their delusion, which was meet. (28)And since they thought not fit to
hold the Deity in acknowledgment, God abandoned them to a reprobate
mind, to practise deeds unbecoming; (29)replete with all injustice,
whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder,
contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, (30)backbiters,
God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked
practices, disobedient to parents, (31)unintelligent, unfaithful to
engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful: (32)who, though they
know the righteous judgment of God, that they who live in such
practices are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also find
pleasure in the company of those who live in these practices.

CHAP. II.

THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, even every one that judgeth: for
in the very thing wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest art living in the practices of the same
things. (2)But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth,
against those who practise such things. (3)For thinkest thou this, O
man, that judgest those who do such things, and doest the same, that
thou shalt escape the judgment of God? (4)Or despisest thou the riches
of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this
goodness of God is leading thee to repentance? (5)But after thy
obdurate and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath at the
day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, (6)who
will recompense to every man according to his works; (7)to those who,
in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and
immortality--eternal life. (8)But to those who are of a contentious
spirit, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation, and wrath; (9)tribulation and anguish upon every soul of
man that doeth wickedness, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
(10)But glory and honour and peace be to every man who doeth that which
is good, to the Jew first and