And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his unspiritual mind.

To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

These people honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Let his mind be changed from that of a man,
and let him be given the mind of an animal
for seven periods of time.