Romans 1:18-32
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
What is the root cause for all these sins? Idolatry! What idolatry, you may ask? Making money your idol. Making money your God to replace the worship of God. Your heart had turned to an idol worship. So, what happens then? Since, you have rebelliously chosen to act out of the sinful nature of the Devil in you and have deliberaretly resented the divine nature of Christ to be formed in you, even though you were shown the difference, you will go full-swing to self-destruction. The sinful nature of the Devil in you, if obeyed as a slave to it, will lead you to eternal destruction. You will mature into the full moon and full bloom of the sinful nature of the Devil in you which leads to the full destruction of you. It is something that you have chosen and you were never forced to do this! Not only do you do it, you teach others also to worship an idol, their money. You teach them by turning all their attention on money. Their thoughts, desires, urges, passions are all made to mature into greed and covetousness. Not only that, this sin leads them to commit other sins through the sinful nature of the Devil in them. We see a long list of these sins it leads to in this passage. Hence forth, these sins work out the full destruction of them and you. (if you live according to the urges and passions of the sinful nature of the Devil in you).
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
