Romans 1:26 ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up ( παρέδωκε , as before) to vile affections ( πάθη ἀτιμίας , i.e. "passions of infamy;" cf. above, τοῦ ἀτιμάζεσθαι ). For the use, on the other hand, of the words τιμὴ and τίμιος to denote seemly and honourable indulgence of the sexual affections, cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 ( τὸ ἐαυτοῦ σκεῦος κτᾶσθαι ἐν ἁγιασμῶ καὶ τιμῆ ) and Hebrews 13:4 ( τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος ). For their women changed... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 1:26

For this cause - On account of what had just been specified; to wit, that they did not glorify him as God, that they were unthankful, that they became polytheists and idolaters. In the previous verses he had stated their speculative belief. He now proceeds to show its practical influences on their conduct.Vile affections - Disgraceful passions or desires. That is, to those which are immediately specified. The great object of the apostle here, it will be remembered, is to shew the state of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 1:26-27

Romans 1:26-27 . For this cause To punish them for their inexcusable neglect, or contempt rather, of the ever-blessed God; and for all their idolatries and impieties; God gave them up unto vile affections Abandoned them to the most infamous passions, to which the heathen Romans were enslaved to the last degree, and none more than the emperors themselves. For even their women From whom the strictest modesty might reasonably be expected; did change the natural use of their bodies into... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

1:18-3:20 HUMANKIND’S SINFUL CONDITIONThe Gentile world (1:18-32)Because God is holy, just and true, he has an attitude of wrath, or righteous anger, against all that is wrong. He is opposed to sin in all its forms, and therefore guilty sinners are under his judgment. The Gentiles may not have received the teaching about God that the Jews have received, but they cannot excuse themselves by saying they know nothing about God. The created universe should tell them that there is a supreme being, a... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 1:26

For this cause = Because of ( App-104 .Romans 1:2; Romans 1:2 ) this. vile affections = passions of infamy (Greek. atimia. Here, Romans 9:21 . 1 Corinthians 11:14 ; 1 Corinthians 15:43 . 2Co 6:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:21 . 2 Timothy 2:20 ). affections = passions, or lusts. Greek. pathos . Only here; Colossians 3:5 . 1 Thessalonians 4:5 . natural . Greek. phusikos. Only here, Rom 1:27 ; 2 Peter 2:12 . use . Greek. chresis. Only here and Romans 1:27 . against . Greek. para. App-104 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions ... These words affirm the judicial nature of the penalty enforced upon ancient apostate nations which... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 1:26

Romans 1:26. Into that which is against nature— Many horrible illustrations of this may be seen in Bos's Exercitations on the place. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 1:26

26, 27. For this cause God gave them up—(See on :-). for even their women—that sex whose priceless jewel and fairest ornament is modesty, and which, when that is once lost, not only becomes more shameless than the other sex, but lives henceforth only to drag the other sex down to its level. did change, c.—The practices here referred to, though too abundantly attested by classic authors, cannot be further illustrated, without trenching on things which "ought not to be named among us as become... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 1:18-32

A. The need of all people 1:18-32Perhaps Paul began by showing all people’s need for God’s righteousness first because he was the apostle to the Gentiles and his Roman readers were primarily Gentiles. His argument in Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20 moves inward through a series of concentric circles of humanity."God never condemns without just cause. Here three bases are stated for His judgment of the pagan world. For suppressing God’s truth (Romans 1:18) For ignoring God’s revelation (Romans... read more