28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.


In Context

25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.

26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

Romans 1:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:28Even 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;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:28And, 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:28And 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;