Romans 1:28

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 others which formed part of the punishment. Here, as throughout, he reverts to the reason they were given over, thus emphasizing anew the connection between religion and morality.

They refused, etc., did not deem it worth while; the original makes ‘God' the object; did not deem God worthy to have in knowledge.

Unto a reprobate mind. ‘Refused' and ‘reprobate' represent words that sound alike, but the play on the words cannot be readily reproduced. ‘Reprobate' means rejected of God as unworthy. The heathen were not deprived of the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong, but they practised evil and encouraged it in others (Romans 1:32). Because ‘they knew the better and approved,' their guilt was the greater when they ‘yet the worse pursued.'

Which are not becoming, indecent, immoral; what these things were is detailed in Romans 1:29-31.