Vile Passions. Romans 1:26 Three times in these few verses, we read the words, “God gave them up.” When God gives people up to their burning passion, there is a finality. No matter what our government may legislate and consider to be in the people's best interests, God has designed standards of behavior and morality that He knew ahead of time are in our best interests. Uncontrolled passions are shameful and debased. There is no foundation, no excuse for those shameful, vile passions to overcome the human mind.
Normal appetites are natural to the body. These are not condemned when kept within the guidelines of God's original intention. When one steps outside the parameters of marriage or the boundaries of human society as ordained by God - that leads to adultery and fornication. But these have gone beyond even that to unnatural passions that leave human instinct behind. These women have gone so far that God gave them up. There are those who claim these passionate appetites are natural. When that which is natural and designed by God is overlooked or abandoned by those who seek forbidden fruit, usually there is no real or defined limit that will stop them.
Around us, the evidence of changing moral standards has become so commonplace that Christian believers will be pressured to accept these changes in spite of what the holy scriptures say. In changing times and when social "mores" change, we still must maintain our commitment to God and His truth. We must be faithful to God no matter what people do, even if they are our own kinfolk. For us to accept wrong practices and wrong morals in those we have natural familial ties to and then to condemn those things in others is, at best, inconsistent and, at worst, hypocritical and sinful.
Sadly, there will probably be those we know and love whom God will give up because they chose to go their own way and ignore the righteousness of life that God intended. What is described by modern society as an “alternate lifestyle” is condemned by the righteous standards of God. It may well be that those who reject God's moral order for living will not only be given up to uncleanness and given up to vile passions but also given up to eternal damnation.