Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house.
They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.
Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.
You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord’s message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,
and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.
But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.
Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.