Romans 1:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘For this reason God gave them up to vile passions, for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature,'

Thus it was as a result of idolatrous worship, and what accompanied it, that men and women were given up by God to vile passions. There is a chilling note to this. God ‘gave them up'. They were so deep in sin that He no longer strove with them (compare Genesis 6:3). So the women changed the natural use into that which is against nature. We will not go into the vile practises which this signifies, save to say that they indulged in all kinds of perversions which can be found in picture and verbal form on some internet sites as men and women today indulge in similar activities, and they are then carried into practise as they meet together by arrangement. Man has not changed.

Romans 1:26

26 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: