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Verse 26. _FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP_, c.] Their system of
idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of _impurity_. How could it be
otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were adult...
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FOR THIS CAUSE - On account of what had just been specified; to wit,
that they did not glorify him as God, that they were unthankful, that
they became polytheists and idolaters. In the previous verses...
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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...
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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...
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A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
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Because of this God abandoned them to dishonourable passions, for
their women exchanged the natural relationship, for the relationship
which is against nature; and so did the men, for they gave up the...
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FOR THIS CAUSE. Because of (App-104.Romans 1:2; Romans 1:2) this.
VILE AFFECTIONS. passions of infamy (Greek. _atimia._ Here, Romans
9:21;...
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_For this cause_ Resuming Romans 1:24.
_vile affections_ Lit. PASSIONS OF DISGRACE; stamped with essential
degradation. (Far different is the Greek, where (in E. V.) the same
word "vile" appears, in P...
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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...
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ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. Wilful rejection of GOD’S self-revelation
undermines self-respect, purity, and the whole sphere of duty.
ΠΆΘΗ�. The gen. is descriptive—shameful passion. The thought
of misuse is included...
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INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE— Many horrible illustrations of
this may be seen in Bos's Exercitations on the place....
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_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...
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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:
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP (SEE THE NOTE AT ROMANS 1:24...
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_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...
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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...
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AFFECTIONS] RV 'passions.'...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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f. With the second παρέδωκεν the Apostle proceeds to a
further stage in this judicial abandonment of men, which is at the
same time a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against them.
It issues...
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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...
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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...
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_God delivered them up. Not by being author of their sins, but by
withdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their
pride, to fall into those shameful sins. (Challoner)_...
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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...
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“ _For this cause God gave them up unto dishonoring passions: for
even their women did change the natural use into that which is against
nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of t...
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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;...
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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...
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26._God therefore gave them up_, _etc. _After having introduced as it
were an intervening clause, he returns to what he had before stated
respecting the judgment of God: and he brings, as the first ex...
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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...
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FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP UNTO VILE AFFECTIONS,.... Because of
their idolatrous practices, God left them to very dishonourable
actions, sodomitical ones, both among the men and women:
FOR EVEN...
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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 natur...
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_For this cause_ To punish them for their inexcusable neglect, or
contempt rather, of the ever-blessed God; and for all their idolatries
and impieties; _God gave them up unto vile affections_ Abandone...
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THIS CAUSE; because of their wickedness in not worshipping him and in
worshipping idols....
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FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP INTO VILE AFFECTIONS; FOR EVEN THEIR
WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE;...
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The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
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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...
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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...
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Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for
their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
'Vile passions' -passions that proceed out of. diseased...
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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...
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OLBGrk;
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 mo...
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For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women
changed the natural use into that which is against nature :...
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II
amorem puerorum repellens, eum appellate bestiam, quod frenum
mordentes, qui se voluptatibus dedunt, libidinosi, quadrupedum coeunt
more, et filios semina...
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Romans 1:26 For G1223 this G5124 God G2316 gave G3860 them G846 up
G3860 (G5656) to G1519 vile...
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF KNOWING GOD BUT REFUSING TO COUNTENANCE HIM AS GOD
(1:26-27).
As a result of worshipping ‘suggestive' images which
over-exaggerated the sexual parts, and indulging in nature worsh...
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‘For this reason God gave them up to vile passions, for their women
changed the natural use into that which is against nature,'
Thus it was as a result of idolatrous worship, and what accompanied
it,...
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Romans 1:26. FOR THIS CAUSE; namely, because of the apostasy described
in Romans 1:25. But as that passage repeats in another form the
thought of Romans 1:23, so this verse takes up anew the thought o...
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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...
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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...
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UNTO VILE PASSIONS
(εις παθη ατιμιας). Unto passions of dishonour.
Παθος, old word from πασχω, to experience, originally meant
any feeling whether good or bad, but in N.T. always in bad sense as
her...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BECAUSE MEN DO THIS. That is, because men make themselves and others
blind to Truth. EVEN THE WOMEN. They committed unnatural acts (such as
lesbianism) with _other women._ IN THE SAME WAY THE MEN. The...
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_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...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:26 Not only homosexual acts but also
homosexual PASSIONS or desires are DISHONORABLE before God. Just as
idolatry is unnatural (contrary to what God intended), so too
homosexua...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy
23:18;...
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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....
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Does this verse mean that homosexuals should not be heterosexual
because it is unnatural to them?
PROBLEM: According to some homosexuals, when Paul spoke against what
is “unnatural” in Romans 1:26, he...