Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.
a. NLT: So
God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a
result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.
b. NIV: Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for
the degrading of their bodies with one another.
c. Young’s Literal Translation: Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires
of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;
d. Amplified Bible: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],
d. Amplified Bible: Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],
1. “Wherefore God also gave them up…”
a. gave up [3860 * paradidomi; para-to the side of; didomi-to
give] [Zodhiates: To deliver over or up
to the power of someone…as to magistrates for trial or condemnation…to soldiers
for punishment…][Strong: to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust,
transmit:--betray, bring forth, cast, commit, deliver (up), give (over, up),
hazard, put in prison, recommend.]
1). In order for the word “also” to
be used here, God had to do something previous to this in order to need the
word “also” in the text. The first act is shown in Romans 1:19, 20, i.e., the
eternal power and the Godhead of God was clearly seen by these people as a
result of a revelation God had given them. Hence, God manifest himself to them
and also God gave them up.
2. “…to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts…”
a. uncleanness [167 * akatharsia] [Zodhiates: Uncleanness or filth
in a natural or physical sense, moral uncleanness, lewdness, incontinence in
general .] [Strong: impurity (the quality), physically or
morally:--uncleanness.]
b. lusts [1939 *
epithymia][Strong: a longing (especially for what is
forbidden):--concupiscence, desire, lust (after).]
c. hearts 2588 * kardia][Strong: the
heart, i.e. (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy)
the middle:--(+ broken-)heart(-ed).]
1). Jesus said the lusts or
passions that defile a person comes out of his own heart.
a). Matthew 15:17-20 Do not ye yet
understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and
is cast out into the draught?
15:18 But those things which
proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
15:19 For out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies:
15:20 These are the things which
defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
3. “…to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.”
a. dishonour [818 * atimazo; a-without,
negative;time-homor][Strong: to render infamous, i.e. (by implication) contemn
or maltreat:--despise, dishonour, suffer shame, entreat shamefully.][Zodhiates:To
dishonour, treat with indignity.]
b. The people the Apostle Paul was
referring to in Romans though claiming to be wise, these people were really
fools. They were fools because they perverted the original revelation of the
signs in the heavens and changed it into astrology began and worshipping the images
of man and animals depicted in the signs.. In Romans 1:24 & 26 we see the
revelation of the, “wrath of God” in response to man when he, “changed the
glory of the uncorruptible God into an image” (verse 23). In verse 24 God “gave
them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour
their own bodies between themselves.” When they began worshipping idols they
changed the truth of God into a lie, after that the next step in the
degenerative process was male and female homosexuality. The phrase “gave…up” is
a compound Greek word. (3860 * paradidomi;
para-to the side of, over to; didomi-to give) It means “to deliver
over or up to the power of someone. Spoken of persons or things delivered over
to do or suffer something, unto the power or practice of someone or something.”[i] In
Romans 1:24 the Lord gave these people over to the power of sexual and moral
uncleanness and they began acting out the lusts in their heart and dishonored
their bodies.
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