“So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired.”
(Romans, v.24, NLT)
“Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are back stabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refused to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.” (Romans 1: vv. 28-32, NLT)