KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Romans 1:26–27
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Romans 1:26
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
26For this cause God gaue them vp vnto vile affections: for euen their women did change the naturall vse into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27
27And 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.
27And likewise also the men, leauing the naturall vse of the woman, burned in their lust one towards another, men with men working that which is vnseemely, and receiuing in themselues that recompense of their errour which was meet.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 1:26
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bestowed, delivered, granted, or caused, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Base, shameful, contemptible, or of little worth.
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affections
Feelings, desires, inclinations, or devoted attachments of the mind and heart.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Indeed or precisely; adding emphasis to what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make or become different; to alter, exchange, replace, or pass from one state to another.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to nature or ordinary birth; not spiritual or supernatural.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Employment, purpose, or customary practice; as a verb, to employ or be accustomed.
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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The inherent constitution, character, or order of a thing; what belongs to it by origin or birth.
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Romans 1:27
In like manner; also or similarly.
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Quitting; withdrawing from; relinquishing; suffering to remain; ceasing; desisting from.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to nature or ordinary birth; not spiritual or supernatural.
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Employment, purpose, or customary practice; as a verb, to employ or be accustomed.
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Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Strong desire; especially sinful or fleshly desire.
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The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In the direction of; in relation to; approaching; or inclined and ready, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Not fit or becoming; uncomely; unbecoming; indecent.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Taking; accepting; admitting; embracing; believing; entertaining.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
recompence
An older spelling of recompense: compensation, reward, repayment, or amends.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A false belief, wrong course, or departure from the truth, law, or right way identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Fit, suitable, proper, or appropriate.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 26
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Open the full verse study7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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Open the full verse study10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
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Open the full verse study22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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Open the full verse study24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
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Open the full verse study9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
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Open the full verse study19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Open the full verse study5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
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Open the full verse study22¶ Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
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Open the full verse study12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
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Open the full verse study5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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Open the full verse study17¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
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Open the full verse study28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
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Open the full verse study10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
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Open the full verse study22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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Open the full verse study23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
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