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Romans 1:18-21
The Moral Decay of the Gentile World.
The refusal to heed the natural revelation of God:
The Moral Decay of the Gentile World.
The refusal to heed the natural revelation of God:
Verse 18. _FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED_] The apostle has now finished his _preface_, and comes to the grand _subject_ of the epistle; namely, to show the _absolute need_ of the Gospel of Christ,...
FOR - This word denotes that the apostle is about to give a reason for what he had just said. This verse commences the argument of the Epistle. an argument designed to establish the proposition advanc...
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 f...
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...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
For the wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven, directed against all impiousness and wickedness of men, who, in their wickedness, wilfully suppress the truth that is struggling in their hearts, fo...
FOR. In the gospel not only is God's salvation revealed, but God's wrath also, and both are the revelation of God's righteousness. THE WRATH OF GOD. This expression Occurs only here, John 3:36; Ephesi...
The necessity for the Gospel: Divine wrath; human (especially heathen) sin 18. _For the wrath of God_, &c. The "for" marks the connexion as follows: "The Gospel is the secret of _salvation_, of justi...
Romans 1:18-32. (18) This power and condition revealed in the Gospel meets the need of man; for in the actual state of man we can see that his life lies under GOD’s wrath. Man has by unrighteous actio...
ΓᾺΡ gives the reason for the revelation just described and for the condition of its effectiveness. ἈΠΟΚ. ὈΡΓῊ ΘΕΟΥ͂. The revelation here spoken of is the revelation through the actual facts of human...
ΑΠΟΚΑΛΎΠΤΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΎΠΤΩ (G601) проявлять. Это слово не обязательно является полностью эсхатологическим, но подразумевает, что Бог недоволен грехом, в том плане, что Бог не може...
FOR— "There is no other way of obtaining life and salvation." Having laid down his proposition, the Apostle now enters upon the proof of it. His first argument is, "The law condemns all men, as being...
PART TWO JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN THE GOSPEL, Romans 1:16 to Romans 11:36 I. Proposition Stated. Romans 1:16-17 1. Not ashamed of the Gospel....
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; FOR THE WRATH OF GOD, [ orgee (G3709) Theou (G2316)] - His ho...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
1:18 heaven (f-9) 'Wrath of God from heaven is revealed.' see Note d; 'there' is merely the impersonal form, not an adverb, but necessary, as it is difficult to put the words in another order without...
WRATH] i.e. the steadfast indignation of God against sin. God 'would not love good, unless He hated evil, the two being inseparable '(Trench). REVEALED] by the state to which sin had brought the Genti...
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
As a preliminary stage to this revelation of justification and of faith, there is another, which is its opposite — a revelation and disclosure of divine wrath. The proof is seen in the present conditi...
CHAPTER 4 NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN Romans 1:18 WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in one sensat...
f. The revelation of the righteousness of God (Romans 1:17) is needed in view of the revelation of His wrath, from which only δικ. θεοῦ (whether it be His justifying sentence or the righteousness whic...
THE ONLY POWER OF SALVATION Romans 1:13 We owe everything to our Lord, but since we can make Him no direct return, He has made men His residuary legatees. We are to think of others as having a claim...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
(8) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against (a) all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the (b) truth in unrighteousness; (8) Another confirmation of the principal question:...
_For the wrath of God is revealed, &c. He begins to speak of the heathens, and of the wicked world, whose sins God punisheth from time to time with visible chastisements of plagues, famines, wars, &c....
FOURTH PASSAGE (1:18-32). THE WRATH OF GOD ON THE GENTILES. According to Paul's usual style, the first verse contains summarily all the ideas developed in the following piece. The study of the verse...
FUNDAMENTAL PART. 1:18-5:21. THE principal subdivision of this part is indicated by the somewhat amplified repetition of Romans 1:17, which we shall find Romans 3:21-22. There we again meet with the p...
FIRST SECTION (1:18-3:20). THE WRATH OF GOD RESTING ON THE WHOLE WORLD. From Romans 1:18, St. Paul is undoubtedly describing the miserable state of the _Gentile world._ From the beginning of chap. 2 h...
“ _For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth captive unrighteously._ ” The transition from Romans 1:17 to Romans 1:18, indicat...
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; (19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_MISSIONS TO JEWS_ ‘To the Jew first.’ Romans 1:16 I. WHY ARE MISSIONS TO THE JEWS SO OFTEN NEGLECTED?—Is it suggested that the gospel is not for them? Do people, consciously or unconsciously, lim...
_JEW AND GREEK_ ‘To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.’ Romans 1:16 The Jew and the Greek were respectively the loftiest and the noblest exponents of the races and religions of the East and the...
18._For _(42) _revealed_, _etc. _He reasons now by stating things of a contrary nature, and proves that there is no righteousness except what is conferred, or comes through the gospel; for he shows th...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN,.... The apostle having hinted at the doctrine of justification by faith in the righteousness of Christ; and which he designed more largely to insist upon...
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 conscien...
Rom. 1:16-18. _Justification - Christ's righteousness. _ "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," etc. - "For herein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written,...
_For_, &c. There is no other way of obtaining righteousness, life, and salvation. Having laid down this proposition, the apostle now enters upon the proof it. His first argument is, the law, whether o...
FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED; the word "for" connects this verse immediately with the preceding, as much as to say, There is need of such a righteousness as the gospel reveals, for the wrath of Go...
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...
ROMANS 1:18-25 1. Is man responsible for his own unrighteousness and misunderstanding about God? a. What is the one visible practice that man does when he misunderstands the nature of God? i. Idola...
WHY THIS MESSAGE IS SO DESPERATELY NEEDED: Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; 'For'...
18-25 The apostle begins to show that all mankind need the salvation of the gospel, because none could obtain the favour of God, or escape his wrath by their own works. For no man can plead that he h...
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 righ...
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness ["For" is intended to introduce a direct proof as to the statem...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And as the wrath of God did then descend upon the unrighteous, here also does the apostle likewise say: "For the wrath of God shall be revealed from heaven against a...
Romans 1:18 For G1063 wrath G3709 God G2316 revealed G601 (G5743) from G575 heaven G3772 against G1909 all...
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 Go...
‘For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness,' ‘For --.' This connecting word immediately lets us know why...
Romans 1:18. FOR. Direct proof of Romans 1:17: the righteousness from God is revealed by faith, _for_ other revelations are of God's wrath. (See note above.) GOD'S WRATH. (The article is wanting here...
DOCTRINAL PART. 1. UNIVERSAL NEED. Having asserted that the gospel is God's power unto salvation to every one that believeth, whether Jew or Greek, the Apostle proceeds to show that all men are sinne...
1. THE SINFULNESS OF THE GENTILES. This fearful yet truthful description of the moral decay of the Gentile world is not introduced abruptly. In Romans 1:17 the Apostle had declared that righteousness...
FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED (αποκαλυπτετα γαρ οργη θεου). Note in Romans Paul's use of γαρ, now argumentative, now explanatory, now both as here. There is a parallel and antecedent revelation ...
Romans 1:18 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 H...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
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 s...
GOD'S WRATH IS REVEALED. The balance of this chapter shows that God is justified in sending his wrath on the sin and evil of men. Salvation is not "make-believe!" The Law shows the reality of sin. Aga...
_For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness._ THE WRATH OF GOD I. Its objects. 1. Unrighteousness. 2. Impenitence. II. Its revelation. 1. In the conscience. 2. In the...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:18 God’s Righteousness in His Wrath against Sinners. God’s wrath is rightly revealed against all people, since all have sinned (Romans 3:23). Paul de
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 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 KN...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
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...
1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Acts 24:24;...
For. All men require this mode of justification, for all men are sinners, and therefore exposed to God's wrath. The wrath of God [ο ρ γ η θ ε ο υ]. Not punishment, but the personal emotion. See on Jo...
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...
For — There is no other way of obtaining life and salvation. Having laid down his proposition, the apostle now enters upon the proof of it. His first argument is, The law condemns all men, as being un...
Our apostle having asserted and laid down. general proposition, that the justification of. sinner is only to be expected by the righteousness of the Mediator in. way of faith; he now undertakes the pr...