Romans 1:28
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And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

as they did.

Romans 1:18,21 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: . . .

Job 21:14,15 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. . . .

Proverbs 1:7,22,29 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Proverbs 5:12,13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters? . . .

Proverbs 17:16 What doth it avail a fool to have riches, seeing he cannot buy wisdom? He that maketh his house high, seeketh a downfall: and he that refuseth to learn, shall fall into evils.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 4:6 My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Acts 17:23,32 For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you: . . .

Romans 8:7,8 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . .

2 Corinthians 10:5 And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: . . .

2 Peter 3:5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God:

retain.

Jeremiah 6:30 Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

2 Corinthians 13:5-7 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates? . . .

2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.

not convenient.

Ephesians 5:4 Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

Philemon 1:8 Wherefore, though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus to command thee that which is to the purpose:

Context
God's Wrath against Sin
27And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts, one towards another: men with men, working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. 28And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient. 29Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,…
Cross References
Genesis 6:5
And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

2 Samuel 22:27
With the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

Psalm 69:27
Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

Ezekiel 20:25
Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live.

Romans 1:24
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

Ephesians 5:4
Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

2 Thessalonians 2:11
That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.

Lexicon
Furthermore,
Καὶ (Kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

since
καθὼς (kathōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 2531: According to the manner in which, in the degree that, just as, as. From kata and hos; just as, that.

they did not see fit
ἐδοκίμασαν (edokimasan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1381: From dokimos; to test; by implication, to approve.

to acknowledge
ἔχειν (echein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

God,
Θεὸν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

[He]
Θεὸς (Theos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

gave them up
παρέδωκεν (paredōken)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 3860: From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

a depraved
ἀδόκιμον (adokimon)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 96: Failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit. By implication, worthless.

mind,
νοῦν (noun)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3563: Probably from the base of ginosko; the intellect, i.e. Mind; by implication, meaning.

to do
ποιεῖν (poiein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's Greek 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

what
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

ought not to be done.
καθήκοντα (kathēkonta)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2520: To come down, come to; To be unfit, proper. From kata and heko; to reach to, i.e. becoming.


Additional Translations
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

And as they did not see fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do things not being proper;

And 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;

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

And according as they did not think good to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind to practise unseemly things;

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

And 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;

And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
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