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Romans 1:28

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And even as they did not like to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over ( παρέδυκεν, as before) to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient (i.e. unfitting or unseemly things).

It is difficult to render in English οὐκ ἐδοκίμασαν and ἀδόκιμον so as to retain the apparently intended correspondence between the verb and the adjective.

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