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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:18-21

The Wrath of God Is Revealed From Heaven Because Of Man’s Ungodliness And Unrighteousness (1:18-21). In stark contrast to the righteousness of God being revealed (Romans 1:17), we have the wrath of God revealed from Heaven (Romans 1:18). The point is that those who fail to respond and receive the righteousness of God will face the wrath of God. And there will be no excuses,. Indeed all are seen to be totally without excuse because ‘what God is’ is revealed in such a way that man has no excuse... 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 1:18

He proceeds to prove the principal proposition laid down in the foregoing verse; the causal particle for implies as much. Men must be justified by the righteousness of God, because they have no righteousness of their own to justify them, they themselves are all unrighteous. This he proves both of the Gentiles and Jews. He begins with the Gentiles, and proves it upon them, from this verse to Romans 2:17; and then he proves it upon the Jews also, from thence to the end of the 3rd chapter. {Romans... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 1:18-21

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 1:18. The wrath of God.—ὀργὴ Θεοῦ, God’s displeasure. The phrase is plainly anthropopathic. May express a particular instance of displeasure.Romans 1:19. That which may be known of God.—That concerning God which is knowable. St. Basil called the natural world a school of the knowledge of God. God is knowable though still unknowable.Romans 1:20. The invisible things of Him from the creation.—Cyril said that the eternity of God is proved from the corruptible nature of the... 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 1:18

Romans 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.The wrath of GodI. Its objects.1. Unrighteousness.2. Impenitence.II. Its revelation.1. In the conscience.2. In the Word of God.3. In Divine providence.III. Its consummation.1. Certain.2. Terrible. (J. Lyth, D. D.)The wrath of GodI. Of a holy God, whose hatred of sin is infinite.II. Of a just God, who cannot but punish sin according to its true desert.III. Of an omniscient God, whose eye there is no eluding, who is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 1:18

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Ver. 18. Who hold the truth ] Hold the light of their conscience (which is as a prophet from God) prisoner. The natural man, that he may sin the more securely, imprisons the truth which he acknowledgeth, and lays hold on all the principles in his head that might any way disturb his course in sin, locking them up in restraint. Hence it appears that no man... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 1:18

the wrath: Romans 4:15 ungodliness: Romans 5:6 unrighteousness: Romans 6:13 who hold: Romans 1:19, Romans 1:28, Romans 1:32, Romans 2:3, Romans 2:15-Isaiah :, Luke 12:46, Luke 12:47, John 3:19-Ecclesiastes :, Acts 24:24, Acts 24:25, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Timothy 4:2 Reciprocal: Genesis 49:1 - Gather Exodus 23:7 - for I will not 2 Chronicles 19:2 - is wrath 2 Chronicles 34:21 - great Job 36:18 - Because Isaiah 34:2 - the indignation Isaiah 53:1 - revealed Matthew 3:7 - who... read more