Romans 1:27

Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

'Burned in their lust one toward another, men with men' -God condemns "mutually loving" homosexual relations.

Homosexuality and lesbianism are traits of. society that is being given up. They are not signs of 'improvement and enlightenment', they are manifestations of ignorance and spiritual darkness. They are not found at the 'high point' of. society, but the 'low point'.

'Unseemliness' -'shameless acts' (Mon). Old word from. Greek word that means "deformed". (Robertson p. 331) It isn't 'just another kind of love' either.

-Primarily want of form, disfigurement. (Vincent p. 20)

'Receiving in themselves' -'in their own persons' (RSV)

'that recompense of their error which was due' -'the due penalty of their error' (NASV) There was always an due penalty,. proper reward,. just paying back for such sinfulness. 'The fitting wage of such perversion' (NEB)