Romans 1:20

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 1:19-20

These verses begin a discussion of "natural revelation." Romans 1:19 states the fact of natural revelation, and Romans 1:20 explains the process. [Note: Witmer, p. 442.] Natural revelation describes what everyone knows about God because of what God has revealed concerning Himself in nature. [Note: See Robert L. Thomas, Evangelical Hermeneutics, ch. 5: "General Revelation and Biblical Hermeneutics," pp. 113-40.] What He has revealed about Himself in Scripture is "special revelation." The... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 1:19-27

2. The ungodliness of mankind 1:19-27 read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Romans 1:20

1:20 divinity, (h-30) What is characteristic of God; not 'Godhead,' as in Colossians 2:9 . render (i-35) The Greek expression does not affirm that they are so, but states the consequence of the display of creative glory in what was seen. 'So that they should,' or 'might be,' is ambiguous in English, and implies purpose. Hence I have said 'so as to render,' which gives the sense. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:1-32

The Power of the Gospel and the need of the World. The Guilt of the HeathenIn his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the centre of his message (Romans 1:1-7). After expressing his desire to visit the Romans (Romans 1:8-15), he states the subject of his Epistle, viz. acceptance with God through faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16-17), and proceeds to develop it by showing that none have been able to merit acceptance... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 1:20

(20) For, though there were parts of God’s being into which the eye could not penetrate, still they were easily to be inferred from the character of His visible creation, which bore throughout the stamp of Omnipotence and Divinity.The invisible things of him.—His invisible attributes, afterwards explained as “His eternal power and Godhead.”Are clearly seen . . . by the things that are made.—There is something of a play upon words here. “The unseen is seen—discerned by the eye of the mind—being... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 1:1-32

The Incarnation of God Romans 1:1-4 We are invited to turn our thoughts with special devotion to that great truth upon which the Gospel, as St. Paul here says, is founded, the awful and overwhelming mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God the truth expressed in the beginning of St. John's Gospel 'the Word was made Flesh'. It must be, indeed, to Christians, their continual thought. I. Such an event as that can have nothing like it, or parallel to it, while this world lasts. The Gospel of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-23

Chapter 4NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD’S ANGER AND MAN’S SINRomans 1:18-23WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in one sensation, the tender and powerful attraction, the solemn duty, and the strange solicitation to shrink from the deliverance of his message. Now his lifted forehead, just lighted up by the radiant truth of Righteousness by Faith, is shadowed suddenly. He is not ashamed of the Gospel; he will speak it out,... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 1:18-32

2. The Need of Salvation Demonstrated. The Whole World Guilty and Lost. Chapter 1:18-3:20. CHAPTER 1:18-32. 1. Wrath Revealed from Heaven. 18. 2. Gentile Knowledge of God. 19-20. 3. Turning from God to Idolatry. 21-23. 4. God Gave Them Up to Corruption. 24-32. Romans 1:18 God now demonstrates that the whole world is destitute of righteousness and needs salvation. Romans 1:18-32 ; Romans 2:1-29 ; Romans 3:1-20 is parenthetical, showing the moral condition of the whole race, away from God and... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 1:20

1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being {d} understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:(d) You do not see God, and yet you acknowledge him as God by his works; Cicero. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:1-32

The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel the Romans had received. First, he gives lovely evidence of the bowing of his shoulder to the yoke of Jesus Christ; "Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ,"-bound to the obedience of Christ by a love greater than his own. But his humility is as firm as lowly. By the call of God he is an apostle; and... read more

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