1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Romans 1:24 | Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, *to uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves. Galatians 5:19.; Ephesians 4:19.; Ephesians 5:3.; Colossians 3:5.; 1 Thessalonians 2:3.; 1 Thessalonians 4:7. | Wherefore God gave them{ Ver. 24. to de paredoken, entautha eiasen esti.|} up, etc. That is, as St. Chrysostom says, permitted them, in punishment of their wilful blindness, to fall into the foulest, most shameful, and unnatural sins of uncleanness here described. (Witham) |