Those without knowledge of the law remain fully accountable to moral law and natural law, as both derive from God's created order and leave no excuse for debased behavior. Rejection of God despite clear revelation initiates a chain of consequences that leads first to idolatry, then to lust and dishonoring of the body, and finally to sexual perversion and a debased mind. At that point a person becomes filled with unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, and twenty-three other traits that include being undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful. Such individuals know the righteous judgment of God yet continue the practices and approve of others who do the same, rendering them deserving of death. This accountability operates across five descending levels of law: love for God with all the heart, soul, and mind; the faith, grace, and commandments of the New Covenant; spiritual, civil, and ceremonial laws; moral law grounded in reason; and the observable order of creation itself, including gravity, growth patterns, and the attraction of like to like. Even when the higher levels remain unknown, cause and effect still apply at the lowest level, so that those who turn from God lose the capacity for self-evaluation and slide into corruption without remedy. The Sodomites illustrate this accountability in full, having received no written law yet facing destruction for pride, fullness of food, abundance of idleness, neglect of the poor, haughtiness, and abomination. The same standard therefore extends to every unconverted person who rejects evident truth about the Creator.