And even as they refused [did not deem it worthy of their mind] to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind [i. e., minds rejected in turn by God as unworthy], to do those things which are not fitting [indecent, immoral];
Verse 28. _THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD_] It would, perhaps, be more literal to translate ουκ εδοκιμασαν, THEY DID NOT SEARCH _to retain God in_ their _knowledge_. They did not _examine_ the evide...
AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE ... - This was the true source of their crimes. They did not choose to acknowledge God. It was not because they could not, but because they were displeased with God, and...
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...
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...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
AND EVEN... MIND. There is. play upon two words here, not easily expressed in Eng. "As they rejected God, God rejected them. " DID... LIKE. Greek. _dokimazo,_ to accept after testing, to approve. Comp...
_And even as_, &c. In this and the following verses the developements of sin are followed into less monstrous but more pervading and not less guilty forms. _as they did not like_ DID NOT APPROVE. The...
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...
ἘΔΟΚΊΜΑΣΑΝ, ‘they thought not fit’ (cf. Field, _ad lo_[77]). The verb implies approval after testing: the infinitive is epexegetic. ΤῸΝ ΘΕῸΝ closely with the verb; cf. in passive construction 1 Thessa...
ΚΑΘΏΣ (G2531) так же; проводит сравнение между действиями Бога и человека, ΈΔΟΚΊΜΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΚΙΜΆΖΩ (G1381) испытывать, подвергать испытанию, принимать решение после проверки. Они испы...
AND, EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD, &C.— The word Δοκιμαζω, which we render _like,_ signifies to _search_ or _explore;_ as goldsmiths try metal, to distinguish the good from the counterfeit....
_TEXT_ Romans 1:26-32. For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the...
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE, [ ouk (G3756) edo...
_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...
1:28 good (d-8) Not 'did not like.' The word means 'to assay, test, prove,' and thence 'to approve' as Philippians 1:10 . reprobate (e-21) Or, as some, 'a mind void of moral discernment.'...
CONVENIENT] RV 'fitting.'...
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...
(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...
EVEN AS. — Rightly translated in the Authorised version: “as” is not here equivalent to “because,” but means rather, _just in like proportion as._ The degree of God’s punishment corresponded exactly t...
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...
ff. In Romans 1:28-30 we have the third and last παρέδωκεν expanded. As they did not think fit, after trial made (ἐδοκίμασαν), to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a mind which cannot s...
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...
(11) And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a (m) reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (11) He proves the unrighteousness of m...
“ _And even as they did not think good to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a mind void of discernment, to do those things which are not fitting._ ” The ungodliness of the Gentiles...
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...
28._And as they chose not, etc. _There is an evident comparison to be observed in these words, by which is strikingly set forth the just relation between sin and punishment. As they chose not to conti...
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...
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 o...
And even as they did not like to retain God in _their_ knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Ver. 28. _To a reprobate mind_] Or, an injudicio...
_And as they did not like_ ουκ εδοκιμασαν, _they did not approve, to retain God in their knowledge_ Or rather, as εχειν εν επιγνωσει more properly signifies, _to retain him with acknowledgment._ For i...
REPROBATE MIND; a mind abhorred of God, and upon which his curse rests. NOT CONVENIENT; not fit or proper, a disgrace to human nature....
AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE MIND TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT CONVENIENT;...
The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
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 1:26-32 1. What is the basic problem of man as Paul sees it in chapter one? a. Is it idolatry? b. Failure to worship God? c. Something more basic? 2. Which sin really came first? a. Fooli...
TO RETAIN: Or, to acknowledge A REPROBATE MIND: Or, a mind void of judgment...
AND EVEN AS THEY REFUSED TO HAVE GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOD GAVE THEM UP UNTO. REPROBATE MIND, TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT FITTING; 'Reprobate' -'their own depraved reason' (NEB). Lit., not st...
26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he...
TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE; or, to have God in acknowledgment. The apostle proceeds to show the analogy betwixt their sin and their punishment. The evil he here taxed them with is much the same...
Dialogue of Justin But if all nations are blessed in Christ, and we of all nations believe in Him, then He is indeed the Christ, and we are those blessed by Him. God formerly gave the sun as an objec...
Romans 1:28 And G2532 as G2531 did G1381 not G3756 like G1381 (G5656) retain G2192 (G5721) God...
THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSING TO HAVE GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE (1:28-32). Paul now moves on from the results of ungodliness to the results of unrighteousness (compare Romans 1:18). Men refused to have Go...
‘And even as they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not fitting,' Not only did mankind ‘know God' but refuse t...
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...
Romans 1:28. AND EVEN AS. This is not equivalent to ‘because,' but marks the correspondence between the sin and its punishment. Having chosen out the most glaring form of vice, the Apostle enumerates...
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...
AND EVEN AS THEY REFUSED (κα καθως ουκ εδοκιμασαν). "And even as they rejected" after trial just as δοκιμαζω is used of testing coins. They tested God at first and turned aside from him.KNOWLEDGE...
DID NOT LIKE Refused to have. Literally, did not approve God....
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...
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 CORRUPTED MINDS. Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12. Those whom God cannot _convince,_ he _confuses._ See note on Matthew 24:21 for an example of what people bring on themselves by rejecting God....
_For this cause God gave them up to vile affections._ HUMAN DEPRAVITY I. The cause of all this gross ignorance and corruption is assigned in Romans 1:28. “They did not like to retain God in their kn...
_And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind._ THE STATE OF HEATHENDOM Idolatry is essentially the same in every age and place. 1. In its...
_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 15:34; 2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Corinthians 13:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...
God gave them up to an undiscerning mind — Treated of, Romans 1:32. To do things not expedient — Even the vilest abominations, treated of Romans 1:29....