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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: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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Romans 1:26-27 • KJVThis is Paul's most direct and explicit commentary on homosexual behavior in his epistle to the Romans. He describes same-sex relations as 'vile affections' and 'against nature', presenting them as contrary to God's intended design for human sexuality.