Romans 1:24-32 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 1:19-32

In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe, I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God. Though they had not such a knowledge of his law as Jacob and Israel had (Ps. 147:20), yet among them he left not himself without witness (Acts 14:17): For that which may be known, etc., Rom. 1:19, 20. Observe, 1. What discoveries they had: That which may be known of God is manifest, en autois?among... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:24-25

1:24-25 So then God abandoned them to uncleanness in their hearts' passionate desires for pleasure, desires which made them dishonour their bodies among themselves, for they are men who have exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and who worship and serve the creation more than they do the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. The word translated desires (epithumia, Greek #1939 ) is the key to this passage. Aristotle defined epithumia ( Greek #1939 ) as a reaching out after... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:26-27

1:26-27 Because of this God abandoned them to dishonourable passions, for their women exchanged the natural relationship, for the relationship which is against nature; and so did the men, for they gave up the natural relationship with women, and were inflamed with their desire for each other, and men were guilty of shameful conduct with men. So within themselves they received their due and necessary rewards for their error. Romans 1:26-32 might seem the work of some almost hysterical... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:28-32

1:28-32 Just as they have given themselves over to a kind of knowledge that rejects the idea of God, so God has given them over to the kind of mind that all reject. The result is that they do things which it is not fitting for any man to do. They are replete with all evil, villainy, the lust to get, viciousness. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, the spirit which puts the worst construction on everything. They are whisperers, slanderers, haters of God. They are insolent men,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:24

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness ,.... Not by putting any into them, but by leaving them to the pollution of their nature; by withdrawing his providential restraints from them, and by giving them up to judicial hardness: through the lusts of their own hearts . The heart of man is the source of all wickedness; the lusts that dwell there are many, and these tend to uncleanness of one sort or another: by it here is meant particularly bodily uncleanness, since it is said they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:25

Who changed the truth of God into a lie ,.... Not the truth of the Gospel, which they were unacquainted with; but that which might be known of God as true, and was known of them by the light of nature; or the true God himself, whom they "changed into a lie"; by ascribing to false deities, which were lying vanities, those things which were known of God; and by worshipping them instead of him: for they worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator ; or "above him" or "against... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections ,.... Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women: for even the women did change the natural use into that which is against nature ; either by prostituting themselves to, and complying with the "sodomitical" embraces of men, in a way that is against nature F8 Vid. R. Sol Jarchi in Gen. xxiv. 16. ; or by making use of such ways and methods with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:27

And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the women ,.... The very sin of "sodomy" is here designed, so called from Sodom, the place where we first hear of it, Genesis 19:5 , the men of which place, because they burned in their lust one towards another , as these Gentiles are said to do, God rained upon them fire and brimstone from heaven: an exceeding great sin this is, contrary to nature, dishonourable to human nature, and scandalous to a people and nation among whom it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like ,.... This accounts for the justness of the divine procedure in leaving them to commit such scandalous iniquities; that since they had some knowledge of God by the light of nature, and yet did not care to retain God in their knowledge ; or to own and acknowledge him as God, to worship and glorify him as such; but took every method to erase this knowledge out of their minds, and keep it from others: God gave them over to a reprobate mind ; a vain empty... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:29

Being filled with all unrighteousness ,.... From hence, to the end of the chapter, follows a large and black list and catalogue of the sad characters of the Gentiles, and of the best men they had among them; for the apostle is all along speaking, not of the common people, but of their wise professors, and moral instructors; than which there never was a more wicked set of men that ever lived upon the face of the earth; who under the guise of morality were guilty of the greatest pride and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 1:19-32

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:24-25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:26-27

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 1:28-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 1:29

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