“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:”
Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. The second giving over: those who suppress God's truth are abandoned to desires contrary to nature (para physin). The specific mention of women's sexual relations marks a departure from Jewish Levitical polemic, suggesting Paul views all sexual deviation from the created design as symptomatic of deeper idolatry and rebellion.
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