Romans 1:27 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 1:27

Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

BSB

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ASV

and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

KJV

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

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Commentary

1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Romans (1107)

Having spoken in a veiled manner about women something shameful and such as is indecent to express clearly, he speaks also about men, that they "burned in their lust for one another," showing that they gave themselves over to licentiousness and frenzied love. He did …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Receiving the just recompense of their error - Their idolatry being punished with that unnatural lust, which was as horrible a dishonour to the body, as their idolatry was to God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And likewise the men ... - The sin which is here specified is what was the shameful sin of Sodom, and which from that has been called sodomy. It would scarcely be credible that man had been guilty of a crime so base and so degrading, unless there was ample and full testimony to it.

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Original language & word study

35 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁμοίως	homoiōs	Likewise	G3668 →
τε	te	then	G5037 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
ἄρσενες	arsenes	males	G730 →
ἀφέντες	aphentes	having left	G863 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
φυσικὴν	phusikēn	natural	G5446 →
χρῆσιν	chrēsin	use	G5540 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
θηλείας	thēleias	female	G2338 →
ἐξεκαύθησαν	exekauthēsan	were inflamed	G1572 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ὀρέξει	orexei	desire	G3715 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
εἰς	eis	toward	G1519 →
ἀλλήλους,	allēlous	one another,	G240 →
ἄρσενες	arsenes	males	G730 →
ἐν	en	with	G1722 →
ἄρσεσιν	arsesin	males	G730 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἀσχημοσύνην	aschēmosunēn	shame	G808 →
κατεργαζόμενοι,	katergazomenoi	working out,	G2716 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἀντιμισθίαν	antimisthian	recompense	G489 →
ἣν	hēn	which	G3739 →
ἔδει	edei	was fitting	G1163 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
πλάνης	planēs	error	G4106 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ἑαυτοῖς	he'autois	themselves	G1438 →
ἀπολαμβάνοντες.¶	apolambanontes	receiving.	G618 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 18:22
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 1:26–27
  For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Timothy 1:10
  for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jude 1:7
  In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 20:13
  If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Through
Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
leads to
- Leviticus 18:22
  You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Romans