“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. The first of three pivotal statements: God gave them over (paradidōmi). This represents not arbitrary punishment but the judicial consequence of rejection: those who refuse God's glory are surrendered to the desires of their hearts. Sexual impurity (akatharsia) becomes the sphere in which their rebellion manifests, the degradation (atimazō) of bodies created for God's honor.
Church Fathers on Romans 1:24
“Wherefore also God gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.” Hence he shows, that even of the perversion of the laws it was ungodliness which was the cause, but He “gave them up,” here is, let them alone. For as he that has the command in an army, if upon the battle lying heavy upon him he retreat and go away, gives up his soldiers to the enemies not by thrusting them himself, but by stripping them…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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