18
The Wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven
Against
all the Godlessness and Wickedness of men
Who
Suppress the Truth by their Wickedness,
19
SINCE WHAT MAY BE KNOW ABOUT GOD
IS
PLAIN TO THEM,
BECAUSE
GOD HAS MADE IT PLAIN TO THEM.
20
For since the Creation of the World God's Invisible Qualities—
His
Eternal Power and Divine Nature—
Have
been Clearly Seen,
Being
understood from what has been made,
SO
THAT MEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.
21
For although they knew God,
They
neither Glorified Him as God, nor gave Thanks to Him,
BUT
THEIR THINKING BECAME FUTILE
AND
THEIR FOOLISH HEARTS WERE DARKENED.
22
Although they claimed to be wise,
THEY
BECAME FOOLS
23
AND EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF THE IMMORTAL GOD
FOR
IMAGES MADE TO LOOK LIKE MORTAL MAN
AND
BIRDS AND ANIMALS AND REPTILES.
24
THEREFORE GOD GAVE THEM OVER
IN
THE SINFUL DESIRES OF THEIR HEARTS
To
Sexual Impurity
For
the Degrading of their bodies with one another.
25
THEY EXCHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD FOR A LIE,
And
worshiped and served created things
Rather
than the Creator--
Who
is forever praised. Amen.
26
BECAUSE OF THIS,
GOD
GAVE THEM OVER TO SHAMEFUL LUSTS.
Even
their women Exchanged Natural Relations,
For
Unnatural ones.
27
In the same way the men
Also
Abandoned Natural Relations with women
And
were Inflamed with Lust for one another.
Men
Committed Indecent Acts with other men,
AND
RECEIVED IN THEMSELVES
THE
DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR PERVERSION.
28
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile
To
retain the knowledge of God,
HE
GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEPRAVED MIND.
TO
DO WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE.
29
They have become Filled
With
every kind of Wickedness, Evil, Greed and Depravity.
They
are Full of Envy, Murder, Strife, Deceit and Malice.
They
are Gossips, Slanderers, God-haters,
Insolent,
Arrogant and Boastful;
They
invent ways of doing Evil;
They
are Disobey their Parents;
They
are Senseless, Faithless, Heartless, Ruthless.
29
ALTHOUGH THEY KNOW GOD'S RIGHTEOUS DECREE
THAT
THOSE WHO DO SUCH THINGS DESERVE DEATH,
They
not only continue to do these Very Things
But
also Approve of those who Practice them.
(Romans
1:18-32)
Today,
America and the West are fulfilling
What
the Apostle Paul spoke of here.
America
is ignoring what God has made Plain to her.
America's
thinking has become Futile
And
her Foolish heart Darkened.
God
has given her over to the Sinful Desires of her heart;
She
has Exchanged the Truth of God for a Lie.
She
has been given over to Shameful Lusts;
Women
Exchanging Natural Relations for Unnatural ones,
And
men Inflamed with Lust for one another.
And
they have received in themselves
The
Due Penalty for their Perversion.
America
has a Depraved mind.
She
is full of every kind of Wickedness, Evil, Greed and Depravity;
Full
of Envy, Murder, Strife, Deceit and Malice,
Gossip,
Slanderer, God-hating;
She
is Insolent, Arrogant and Boastful;
She
Invents ways of doing Evil;
She
is Disobedient to Parents;
She
is Senseless, Faithless, Heartless, Ruthless.
Unless
there is REPENTANCE, she is Hopeless.
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