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Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Romans 1:1-99

Romans 1 IT IS VERY fitting therefore that the opening words of the epistle should give us a brief summary of the Gospel. Jesus the Christ, who is God’s Son, and our Lord, is the great theme of it, and it particularly concerns Him as the One who is risen from the dead. He truly came here as a real Man, so that He was David’s seed on that side; yet He was not merely that, for there was another side, not what He was “according to the flesh,” but “according to the Spirit of holiness.” He was the... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Romans 1:26-32

The depths of immorality and godlessness: v. 26. For this cause God gave them up into vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; v. 27. and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another: men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. v. 28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Romans 1:18-32

PART FIRSTThe Doctrine of Justification by Faith as the Restoration of the true Glorification of GodCHAPTERS 1–11_____________________FIRST DIVISIONSIN AND GRACE IN THEIR FIRST ANTITHESIS, THE REALLY RELIGIOUS AND MORAL LIFE. THE ACTUAL ENTRANCE OF CORRUPTION AND SALVATION. GOD’S WRATH AT ALL HUMAN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; THAT IS, THE WORLD’S REAL CORRUPTION MATURING FOR DEATH, AND HASTENED BY THE JUDGMENT OF GOD; AND THE OPPOSING JUSTIFICATION OF SINNERS THROUGH THE MERCY-SEAT, OR PARDON IN CHRIST IN... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Romans 1:24-32

from Gross Sins of the Flesh Romans 1:24-32 Few men knew as much as did Paul of the unutterableness of human need. In terrible words he enumerates its various aspects. Truth would enter human hearts from God’s work in nature and from conscience, yet men pull down the blind and close the curtain. It is not that they do not know, but that they refuse to have God in their knowledge. They shun the thought of God, Psalms 10:4 . They will not lift their happy faces toward Him with filial... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Romans 1:1-32

Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on him for the Greeks and barbarians, the wise and the foolish. In verses Rom 1:16-17 we have a statement in brief of the whole argument of the epistle, and a declaration of the Gospel deposit which made Paul a debtor. It is a Gospel of power, that is, one which is equal to the accomplishment of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:28-32

The Consequences Of Refusing To Have God In Their Knowledge (1:28-32). Paul now moves on from the results of ungodliness to the results of unrighteousness (compare Romans 1:18). Men refused to have God in their knowledge. They ‘did not want to know’ because they did not want to submit to His demands. As a consequence God gave them up to an unfit mind so that they would do those things which were not fitting. In Romans 1:24 He had given them up to the lust of their hearts. Now He gives them up... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:29-31

‘Being filled with all unrighteousness: wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, breakers of agreements, without natural affection, unmerciful,’ The consequence of their being given up to an unfit mind was that they were ‘filled with all unrighteousness’, the unrighteousness of Romans 1:18. Instead of coming... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:18-32

Romans 1:18-Jonah : . Mankind is in a ruinous plight: God’ s Anger, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. Romans 1:18 a . “ The Divine wrath is being revealed from heaven” in action “ against all impiety and unrighteousness of men.” The revelation is apparent in the moral outcome of irreligion described in Romans 1:21-Jonah :— an apocalypse more appalling than earthquake or famine. Romans 1:18 b – Romans 1:20 . Man is responsible for his perdition: “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 1:29

Now follow the sins against the second table, which reigned amongst the Gentiles; amongst which unrighteousness is as the fountain, from whence the rest as streams do flow. This is the genus that comprehends all the evils hereafter enumerated. It is not to be supposed that all the following vices were found in every individual person; but the meaning is, that all were guilty of some, and some were guilty of all of them. Fornication, wickedness; in the Greek there is all elegant paronomasia,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:22-32

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:22-23.—Here begins a dark picture of heathenism, but fully verified from the writings of what has been called the most brilliant age of the most intellectual nations of the world. St. Paul traces man’s downward progress. Evolution, but in the wrong direction. According to the Jewish rabbis, one sin made to follow as the punishment of another. τὴν δόξαν, spoken of God, refers to the divine majesty and glory.Romans 1:25. Who is blessed for ever.—These doxologies common in... read more

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