<p>1:27 <i>And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another</i><i>- </i>Paul speaks of how sinful behaviour ends up in people doing things &lsquo;contrary to nature&rsquo;; and yet he uses a similar phrase to describe how being &lsquo;grafted in&rsquo; to the true hope of Israel, with all it implies in practice, is likewise &ldquo;contrary to nature&rdquo; (Rom. 1:26,27 cp. 11:24). We walk against the wind, go against the grain, one way or the other in this life. And, cynically speaking, it may as well be for the Lord&rsquo;s cause than for the flesh. See on Mt. 3:11. The recompense refers not to AIDS but to God&rsquo;s confirming of homosexuals in their sin to the extent that they believe it is natural and somehow coded into their bodies.</p><p><i>Men with men working unseemliness and receiving in themselves that reward of their error which was due</i>- &ldquo;Error&rdquo; is s.w. deception. Homosexual sin is therefore the result of deception. Earlier Paul has said that God has given over homosexuals to their own lusts, to the point they believe that their sin is natural; here he says that homosexuals have been deceived. The deception is also by God, just as He sends &ldquo;strong delusion&rdquo; s.w. &ldquo;error&rdquo; upon those who don&rsquo;t love the Truth, so that they believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:11).</p>