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Romans 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves;
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves;
Verse 24. _GOD-GAVE THEM UP_, c.] They had filled up the measure of their iniquities, and God, by permitting them to plunge into all manner of irregularities, thus, by one species of sin, inflicted pu...
WHEREFORE - That is, because they were unwilling to retain him in their knowledge, and chose to worship idols. Here is traced the practical tendency of paganism; not as an innocent and harmless system...
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)...
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 tru...
ALSO. Omit. GAVE THEM UP. See John 19:30. UNCLEANNESS. Greek. _akatharsia._ Occurs ten times, always so rendered. The cognate word _akathartes_ in Revelation 17:4 only. Ceasing to know God (Romans 1:...
The same subject: heathen sin judicially aggravated 24. _Wherefore God also gave them up_ The inevitable connexion of idolatry with debased morality is stated here. Nothing but the knowledge of the Ho...
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...
The consequences seen in the moral condition, to which GOD handed man over. Man by ignoring the truth is led to neglect the worship of GOD for the worship of creatures, and thence (24) to failure in d...
ΔΝΌ (G1352) следовательно, ΠΑΡΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G3860) передавать, вручать, часто в руки правосудия (Gifford; SB, 3:62f; TLNT). ΕΠΙΘΥΜΊΑ (G1939) похоть, желание, ΚΑΡΔΙΏΝ _gen....
WHEREFORE GOD ALSO GAVE THEM UP— There are three degrees of ungodliness and of punishment described in these verses: the _first_ in Romans 1:21.; the _second_ in Romans 1:25.; the _third_ in the 28th...
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....
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: WHEREFORE GOD ALSO (IN RIGHTEOUS RETRIBUTION), GAVE THEM UP, ...
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...
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...
GAVE THEM UP] Those who forsake God, forsake Him who restrains evil and inspires good. Further, one sin leads to another, by natural consequence which is God's law: cp. Psalms 81:12; Acts 7:42. So 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...
(24-32) Hence they fell into a still lower depth; for, in anger at their perversion of the truth, God refrained from checking their downward course. He left them to follow their own evil bent. Their i...
CHAPTER 5 MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN Romans 1:24 WHEREFORE God gave them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, so as to dishonour their bodies among themselves. There is...
FROM GROSS SINS OF THE FLESH Romans 1:24 Few men knew as much as did Paul of the unutterableness of human need. In terrible words he enumerates its various aspects. Truth would enter human hearts fro...
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...
(10) Wherefore (i) God also (k) gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (10) The unrighteousness of men he sets forth firs...
_Wherefore God gave them [4] up, &c. That is, as St. John Chrysostom says, permitted them, in punishment of their wilful blindness, to fall into the foulest, most shameful, and unnatural sins of uncle...
“ _Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:who travestied the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and...
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...
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...
24._God therefore gave them up, etc. _As impiety is a hidden evil, lest they should still find an evasion, he shows, by a more palpable demonstration, that, they cannot escape, but must be held fast b...
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...
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 giv...
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Ver. 24. _Gave them up to uncleanness_] Aristotle confesseth th...
_Wherefore God gave them up_ As a punishment of this most unreasonable and scandalous idolatry, God withdrew his restraining grace from them as he did from the antediluvians, Genesis 6:3; the conseque...
GOD ALSO; as a punishment for their sins in thus dishonoring him, abandoned them to the dominion of corrupt desires, appetites, and passions; and suffered them to commit the vilest abominations to the...
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...
__ Romans 1:24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 'God gave them up' - 'gave them over' (NASV); 'letti...
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...
WHEREFORE; their impiety was the cause of what followed: this is repeated again, that it may be the better observed. The contempt of God and of religion is the cause of all wickedness. GOD ALSO GAVE T...
Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves :...
Origen Against Celsus Book V But since those who wandered away from the east were delivered over, on account of their sins, to "a reprobate mind," and to "vile affections," and to "uncleanness throug...
Romans 1:24 Therefore G1352 God G2316 also G2532 gave G3860 them G846 up G3860 (G5656) to G1519 uncleanness...
‘For which reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves,' And the consequence was that God gave them up, in the lusts ...
MAN'S REBELLION AGAINST GOD COMES TO ITS INEVITABLE FRUITION (1:21-25). Paul now demonstrates how man's refusal to know God results in man's fall into gross sin. We have already been told about the un...
Romans 1:24. WHEREFORE. Having shown that the heathen had the truth and held it back in unrighteousness, the Apostle now shows _how_ God's wrath was displayed: generally in giving them up to uncleanne...
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...
WHEREFORE (διο). Paul's inexorable logic. See it also in verse Romans 1:26 with the same verb and in verse Romans 1:28 κα like "and so."GOD GAVE THEM UP (παρεδωκεν αυτους ο θεος). First aorist act...
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...
TO DO THE FILTHY THINGS. God himself did not _cause_ their sin, but when they rejected him, he allowed them to bring trouble upon themselves. The false religions accelerated the moral decay of the Gen...
_Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness._ THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE DIVINE ABANDONMENT You have merely to loose the connection, and the trucks by their own weight rush down the incline, and das...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:24 Three times Paul says GOD GAVE THEM UP to sin (vv. Romans 1:24, Romans 1
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:22.—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 worl...
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 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Corinthians 6:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:10;...
Wherefore — One punishment of sin is from the very nature of it, as Romans 1:27; another, as here, is from vindictive justice. Uncleanness — Ungodliness and uncleanness are frequently joined, 1 Thessa...
Observe here, 1. Another infamous sin charged upon the Heathens; namely, the sin of uncleanness; yea, base, unnatural uncleanness, and pollutions of the most odious kinds. Learn thence, That idolatry...