Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 1:25
Who changed the truth — The true worship of God. Into a lie — False, abominable idolatries. And worshipped — Inwardly. And served — Outwardly.
Who changed the truth — The true worship of God. Into a lie — False, abominable idolatries. And worshipped — Inwardly. And served — Outwardly.
Verse 25. _CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE_] In the place of the _true worship_ of God, they established _idolatry_. In various places of Scripture _idols_ are termed _lies_. Isaiah 44:20; Jeremi...
WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD - This is a repetition of the declaration in Romans 1:23, in another form. The phrase, “the truth of God” is a Hebrew phrase, meaning “the true God.” In such a case, where...
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...
WHO. Since they. CHANGED. Greek. _metallasso_. only here and Romans 1:26. A stronger word than in Romans 1:23. THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO. LIE. the truth of God for the lie. Man transferred his worship fr...
_who changed_ The Greek relative pronoun implies that this was the _cause_of the special turn taken by the judicial hardening: SEEING THEY HAD CHANGED, &c. _the truth of God_ i.e. that which is true...
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...
ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ. Quippe qui, “seeing that they,” repeats Romans 1:23 with amplification. ΤῊΝ�. Quite comprehensive = the truth about God and themselves and their relation to Him; so ΤΩ͂Ι ΨΕΎΔΕΙ the false theo...
ΜΕΤΉΛΛΑΞΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΕΤΑΛΆΣΣΩ (G3337) менять, обленивать. Это слово предполагает сознательный выбор, ΈΣΕΒΆΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΣΕΒΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G4573) поклоняться, почитать, ΈΛΆΤΡΕΥΣΑΝ _...
WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE— Elsner takes great pains to shew, that the _truth of God,_ here signifies what he really was; and _a lie,_ a false representation. It is well known that idols...
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....
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. WHO CHANGED, [ hoitines (G3748) meteellaxan (G3337) = Quippe qu...
_THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND_ 25 There may be an allusion here to the prevalent custom of worshiping the Roman emperor. It has often occurred that, when men have attained to great eminence, they have dema...
1:25 who (c-1) The word implies the character. 'who were such as,' see Matthew 7:24 ....
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...
WHO] RV 'for that they.' CHANGED] RV 'exchanged.' TRUTH OF GOD] i.e. the true idea of God. INTO A LIE] RV 'for a lie,' i.e. for an idol, a false conception of God. MORE] RV 'rather.'...
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...
WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE. — They ceased to worship God as He is — in His own true essential nature, and worshipped false gods instead. The phrase “into a lie,” is literally, _with a lie...
(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...
οἵτινες μετήλλαξαν κ. τ. λ.: being as they were persons who exchanged the truth of God for the lie. “The truth of God” (_cf._ Romans 1:23, “the glory of God”) is the same thing as God in His truth, or...
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...
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...
“ _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...
VV. 25 was an interruption extorted from Paul by the need which his outraged heart felt to justify once more the severity of such a punishment. He now resumes his exposition of the punishment, begun i...
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...
25._Who changed_, _etc. _He repeats what he had said before, though in different words, in order to fix it deeper in our minds. When the truth of God is turned to a lie, his glory is obliterated. It i...
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...
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;...
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Ver. 25. _Who changed_] They tare out their natural principles an...
_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...
CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE; the true God for an idol, or false god. MORE THAN; instead of. BLESSED FOR EVER; worthy of eternal love and praise....
The result of deliberate folly:...
WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN. Here the result of ignoring God and of deliberately setting aside th...
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 1:25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for. lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. They deliberately swapped the truth of...
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...
WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE; i.e. the God of truth, or the true God, into an idol, which is a lie, which seems to be that which it is not: or else, by _the truth of God, _ understand those...
for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. [Wherefore, finding them living in lust, God ceased t...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II being the disciples of those mentioned, render such as assent to them worse than the heathen. For the former "serve the creature rather than the Creator,"[44] Tertu...
Romans 1:25 who G3748 exchanged G3337 (G5656) truth G225 God G2316 for G1722 lie G5579 and G2532 worshiped...
‘In that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.' And all this happened because man by his own choice...
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 1:25. BEING SUCH AS, or, ‘since they were such as.' Here the Apostle reverts to the reason for the punishment. EXCHANGED. A stronger phrase than that in Romans 1:23. THE TRUTH OF GOD. The tr...
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...
EXCHANGED (μετηλλαξαν). First aorist active indicative of μεταλλασσω, old word for exchanging trade, only here and verse Romans 1:26 in N.T. What a bargain they made, "the truth of God for (εν) the...
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 1:25 Nature Worship. Consider whether our religion or our irreligion is so free from the idolatrous element as we generally suppose, and if not what are the appearances which bear the most re...
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...
THEY EXCHANGE THE TRUTH. Some think the images were originally intended to help focus the mind on God. In time, the image _became_ "god" for them, and God the Creator was forgotten....
_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 1:25 EXCHANGED THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD FOR A LIE. All non-Christian religions are based on false ideas about God. They are not just “different paths” to God....
_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 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 John 5:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Tim
Here our apostle proceeds to give. particular and distinct account of the abominable idolatry and unnatural filthiness, which he had charged the Heathens with in the foregoing verses. As to their idol...