Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26 WEB

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:24

‘For which reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves,’ And the consequence was that God gave them up, in the lusts (passionate desires for pleasure) of their hearts (minds, wills and emotions), to beastliness. They became what their gods were. And that involved them in uncleanness and dishonouring their bodies among themselves. The filthiness in man’s nature became unrestricted, and it soon became apparent in... 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 1:24

Wherefore; their impiety was the cause of what followed: this is repeated again, that it may be the better observed. The contempt of God and of religion is the cause of all wickedness. God also gave them up; this phrase is thrice used in this context, viz. Romans 1:24,Romans 1:26,Romans 1:28; it seems to be taken out of Psalms 81:12. Some think his giving them up, is only’ his withdrawing his grace from them, and permitting them to sin; but there seems to be more in it than a bare subtraction... 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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

Romans 1:18-32 The Natural History of Paganism. I. St. Paul's first proposition is, that from the first the heathen knew enough of God from His works to render them without excuse for not worshipping Him. II. Secondly, the Apostle declares that the heathen have culpably repressed and hindered from its just influence the truth which they did know respecting God. He traces polytheistic and idolatrous worship to its root. (1) Its first origin he finds in a refusal to walk honestly by such light as... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 1:1-32

This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring:Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God ( Romans 1:1 ).Twenty-five years before Paul wrote this epistle to the Romans he was on the road to Damascus to imprison the Christians there. When suddenly about noon there came a light brighter than the mid-day sun and there the Lord said, "Saul, Saul why persecute thou me?" And he answered and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 1:1-32

Romans 1:1 . Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Called to be an apostle, and endowed with heavenly gifts in a special manner, when the Lord himself appeared to him, as stated on Acts 9:15; Acts 22:14. This call, being purely divine, made him a debtor to all men, and gave him a title to address... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 1:24-25

Romans 1:24-25Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. The consequences of the Divine abandonmentYou have merely to loose the connection, and the trucks by their own weight rush down the incline, and dash themselves to a thousand pieces. A physician has merely to retire when his orders have been repeatedly disregarded, to deliver his refractory patient over in his disease to protracted suffering and possibly to a premature grave. In like manner, if God judicially delivers over men who... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 1:24

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Ver. 24. Gave them up to uncleanness ] Aristotle confesseth the disability of moral knowledge to rectify the intemperance of nature; and made it good in his practice; for he used a common strumpet to satisfy his lust. Socrates is said to have had his catamite a inter Socraticos, & c. (Juvenal.) a A boy kept for unnatural purposes. ŒD read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 1:24

God: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Hosea 4:17, Hosea 4:18, Matthew 15:14, Acts 7:42, Acts 14:16, Acts 17:29, Acts 17:30, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-2 Kings : through the lusts: Romans 6:12 to dishonour: 1 Corinthians 6:13, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 1 Thessalonians 4:4, 2 Timothy 2:20-Song of Solomon : between: Romans 1:27, Leviticus 18:22 Reciprocal: Genesis 19:5 - General Genesis 19:7 - General 1 Kings 14:24 - And there Jeremiah 4:10 - surely Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Luke 15:15 - to feed... read more