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Two women and two men face one another at respectful distances around an unattended covenant garland and lamp.
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Romans 1:24-27

The Exchange of Desire

The Good News and the Exchange · Romans 1

Story guide: Disclosed, non-sexualized visual essay. Paul describes people being given over to impurity and dishonorable passions, exchanging natural relations. The image preserves equal human dignity and does not invent or display sexual acts.

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24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, for the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.

25who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and revered and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions, for even their women exchanged natural relations for what is contrary to nature,

27And likewise the males, having abandoned the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their desire for one another, males with males committing indecency and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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