Romans 1:24 : Wherefore God gave them up in the lust of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves. When people are determined to reject God for their own way, God allows them unhindered to follow their chosen course so that they may the sooner see the degradation that comes to those who follow their own wisdom. When men are not held in restraint by a feeling of personal responsibility to God nor by associating with those who do honor God, their passions become the controlling force in their lives; they plunge into all sorts of immoralities, and they dishonor their bodies among themselves. When a whole nation forsakes God for idols, there is not then so much as the conventions of society to hold them in check. It takes a power out-side itself to keep anything from going downward, both in physics and in morals.