Romans 1:26-16:27 NIV

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 1:26

For this cause; i.e. for their idolatry and uncleanness both, for now their idolatry is aggravated by the uncleanness accompanying it. Vile affections; Gr. affections of dishonour, i.e. the most dishonourable and shameful affections; for as we are exhorted, 1 Thessalonians 4:4,1 Thessalonians 4:5, to possess our vessels in honour, that is, to withhold our body from uncleanness; so they that give up themselves to uncleanness, dishonour themselves and their own bodies; see 1 Corinthians 6:18; if... 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 1:26-32

Romans 1:26-32For this cause God gave them up to vile affections. Human depravityI. The cause of all this gross ignorance and corruption is assigned in Romans 1:28. “They did not like to retain God in their knowledge.”1. The expression plainly assumes God’s having been known, and that the cause of corruption and loss of the original knowledge was entirely of a moral nature. This will appear--(1) From the word itself--“they did not like.” Inability: whether arising from the want of evidence, or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Romans 1:26

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Ver. 26. Into that which is against nature ] So against nature, that children (natures end) and posterity is utterly lost by it. Paul seems to point here at Messalina (that shame of her sex), the wife of Claudius the emperor. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Romans 1:26

gave them: Romans 1:24 vile: Genesis 19:5, Leviticus 18:22-Hosea :, Deuteronomy 23:17, Deuteronomy 23:18, Judges 19:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Ephesians 4:19, Ephesians 5:12, 1 Timothy 1:10, Jude 1:7, Jude 1:10 Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:13 - General 1 Kings 15:12 - the sodomites 1 Kings 22:46 - the remnant 2 Kings 23:7 - the sodomites Psalms 81:12 - I gave Jeremiah 4:10 - surely Ezekiel 16:50 - and committed Romans 7:5 - motions Colossians 3:5 - inordinate 1 Thessalonians 4:5 - in the read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:Therefore God gave them up to vile affections — To which the heathen Romans were then abandoned to the last degree; and none more than the emperors themselves. read more

Daniel Whedon

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

I. THE RUIN. FALLEN MAN WITHOUT THE GRACE OF CHRIST, Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20. 1. Condition of the heathen world, Romans 1:18 to Romans 2:16 . The structure of human salvation must base its pillars deep in the profound of human ruin. Of that ruin, therefore, the apostle furnishes a just but gloomy picture. 1. He first portrays the heathen world, illustrating man’s fall by the extremes of depravity to which condemning history shows that human nature can go, (Romans 1:18-32.) 2. Leaving... read more