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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Human Guilt (Romans 1:26-32) The Living Bible & Good News Translations

THE LIVING BIBLE TRANSLATION
26  That is why God let go of them and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God’s natural plan for them and indulged in sex sin with each other. 
27  And the men, instead of having normal sex relationships with women, burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things with other men and, as a result, getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly deserved.
28  So it was that when they gave God up and would not even acknowledge him, God gave them up to doing everything their evil minds could think of. 
29  Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness and sin, of greed and hate, envy, murder, fighting, lying, bitterness, and gossip.
30  They were backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, always thinking of new ways of sinning and continually being disobedient to their parents. 
31  They tried to misunderstand, broke their promises, and were heartless—without pity. 
32  They were fully aware of God’s death penalty for these crimes, yet they went right ahead and did them anyway and encouraged others to do them, too.

GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION
26  Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts. 
27  In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.
28  Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do. 
29  They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip 
30  and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents; 
31  they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.
32  They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.

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