Romans 1:27. The men; lit., ‘males.' The vice of sodomy was very prevalent in the ancient world. The description here is more intense, corresponding with the prevalence and intensity of the immorality.

Receiving in themselves; in their own persons. ‘The unseemliness' points to something well known.

That recompense of their error. The unnatural lusts and vices were the recompense, the due punishment, of their ‘error,' namely, their departure from God into idolatry.

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Old Testament