For this cause, God gave them over to shameful passions; for his women changed natural relationships for relationships against nature.
1:26,27 — “Your women changed…” They abused their bodies. Many pagan women practiced homosexual aberrations, as well as bestiality (Lev 18:23). Men committed sodomyDeu 23:17; 2Ki 23:7).
Source: Commentary on the New Testament by Partain
for this God gave them over to shameful passions. Gen 19:5; Lev 18:22-28; Deu 23:17, Deu 23:18; Thu 19:22; 1Co 6:9; Eph 4:19; Eph 5:12; 1Ti 1:10; Jude 1:7, Jude 1:10.
Source: The Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
The next verse makes it clear that it refers to unnatural sexual relations between women. lesbianism is against the nature; it is contrary to the purpose of the Creator.
Source: New Illustrated Caribbean Bible Commentary
God gave them up. See the notes on vv.Romans 1:18; Romans 1:24. shameful passions. Identified in vv. Romans 1:26-27 as homosexual conduct, a sin condemned in the strictest way in the Scriptures (Gen 19:1-38; Lev 18:22; 1Co 6:9-11; zip Gal 5:19-21; Eph 5:3-5; 1Ti 1:9-10; Jude 1:7). women. Instead of the usual Greek term meaning women, this is a generic word for the female sex. Paul mentions women first to show the extent of impudence under the wrath of abandonment, because in most cultures women are the last to be affected by moral collapse.
Source: MacArthur Study Bible
1:26,27 — “their women changed…” They abused their bodies. Many pagan women practiced homosexual aberrations, as well as bestiality (Lev 18:23). Men committed sodomy (Deu 23:17; 2Ki 23:7).
Source: Reeves-Partain Notes
THE ERA OF SHAME
Romans 1:26, 27
For all this, God has abandoned them to dishonorable passions; because their women change the natural relationship for others that go against the natural, and the men do the same, leaving the natural relationship with the women and inflaming themselves with desires for each other, becoming guilty of shameful conduct with others mens. In this way they receive within themselves the just and inevitable consequences of their mistake.
Rom 1:26-32
Source: New Testament Commentary
CROSS-REFERENCES
l65 1Thess 4:5
m 66 Lev 18:23; Jude 1:7
Source: New World Translation
Ie, normal intercourse