Romans 1:24-28 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:25

Changed the truth of God into a lie - In the place of the true worship of God, they established idolatry. In various places of Scripture idols are termed lies. Isaiah 44:20 ; Jeremiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 13:25 . The true God was known among the primitive inhabitants of the earth, those who first became idolaters literally changed the truth of God into a lie: they did know the true God, but they put idols in his place. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up, etc. - Their system of idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of impurity. How could it be otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of the most infamous kind, such as Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Venus, etc.? Of the abominable evils with which the apostle charges the Gentiles in this and the following verse I could produce a multitude of proofs from their own writings; but it is needless to make the subject... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:27

Receiving in themselves that recompense, etc. - Both the women and men, by their unnatural prostitutions, enervated their bodies, so that barrenness prevailed, and those disorders which are necessarily attendant on prostitution and sodomitical practices. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:28

They did not like to retain God - It would, perhaps, be more literal to translate ουκ εδοκιμασαν , They Did Not Search to retain God in their knowledge. They did not examine the evidences before them ( Romans 1:19 , Romans 1:20 ;) of his being and attributes; therefore God gave them over to a Reprobate mind, εις αδοκιμον νουν , to an Unsearching or undiscerning mind; for it is the same word in both places. They did not reflect on the proofs they had of the Divine nature, and God... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:24

Verse 24 24.God therefore gave them up, etc. As impiety is a hidden evil, lest they should still find an evasion, he shows, by a more palpable demonstration, that, they cannot escape, but must be held fast by a just condemnation, since such fruits have followed this impiety as cannot be viewed otherwise than manifest evidences of the Lord’s wrath. As the Lord’s wrath is always just, it follows, that what has exposed them to condemnation, must have preceded it. By these evidences then he now... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:25

Verse 25 25.Who changed, etc. He repeats what he had said before, though in different words, in order to fix it deeper in our minds. When the truth of God is turned to a lie, his glory is obliterated. It is then but just, that they should be besprinkled with every kind of infamy, who strive to take away from God his honor, and also to reproach his name. — And worshipped, etc. That I might include two words in one, I have given this rendering. He points out especially the sin of idolatry; for... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:26

Verse 26 26.God therefore gave them up, etc. After having introduced as it were an intervening clause, he returns to what he had before stated respecting the judgment of God: and he brings, as the first example, the dreadful crime of unnatural lust; and it hence appears that they not only abandoned themselves to beastly lusts, but became degraded beyond the beasts, since they reversed the whole order of nature. He then enumerates a long catalogue of vices which had existed in all ages, and then... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:27

Verse 27 27.Such a reward for their error as was meet. They indeed deserved to be blinded, so as to forget themselves, and not to see any thing befitting them, who, through their own malignity, closed their eyes against the light offered them by God, that they might not behold his glory: in short, they who were not ashamed to extinguish, as much as they could, the glory of God, which alone gives us light, deserved to become blind at noonday. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:28

Verse 28 28.And as they chose not, etc. There is an evident comparison to be observed in these words, by which is strikingly set forth the just relation between sin and punishment. As they chose not to continue in the knowledge of God, which alone guides our minds to true wisdom, the Lord gave them a perverted mind, which can choose nothing that is right. (53) And by saying, that they chose not, (non probasse - approved not,) it is the same as though he had said, that they pursued not after the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

(a) The heathen world in general. read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:27

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:28

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:27

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

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