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The judgment of God (1:18–32)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;[3]
19 ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,[4]
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. [symbols of power establish by covenants]
24 Wherefore God also gave them up[5] to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: [stepping out of the presence of God= adds subjectivity]
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature[6] more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 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:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 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;
- Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication [metaph. the worship of idols ], wickedness[evil purposes and desires][7], covetousness[8], maliciousness[9]; full of envy[10], murder[11], debate[12], deceit[13], malignity[14]; whisperers[15],
30 Backbiters[defamer][16], haters of God,[17] despiteful[18], proud[19], boasters[20], inventors[ contriver] of evil things[21], disobedient[22] to parents,
31 Without understanding[23], covenantbreakers[24], without natural affection[unsociable][25], implacable[without a treaty or covenant ][26], unmerciful[27]:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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- ↑ * John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
- John 6:36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
- John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 10:37 38 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
- John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
- John 12:11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
- John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
- John 20:8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
- Acts 5:14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
- Acts 9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
- Acts 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
- Acts 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
- Acts 17:34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
- Acts 19:9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.
- 1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
- ↑ * John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
- Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.
- Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
- Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
- Genesis 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
- Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth.
- Deuteronomy 17:14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that [are] about me;
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- ↑ * 1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
- Psalms 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
- Psalms 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
- Psalms 69:5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- Psalms 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- ↑ The phrase "gave them up" from "παρέδωκεν] expresses the real active giving up on the part of God." according to Meyer's NT Commentary. The same Idea is repeated in Romans 1:28
- ↑ 2937 ~κτίσις~ ktisis \@ktis’-is\@ from 2936 to fabricate or make; n f AV-creature 11, creation 6, building 1, ordinance 1; 19
- 1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
- 1a) the act of creating, creation
- 1b) creation i.e. thing created
- 1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
- 1b1a) anything created
- 1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)
- 1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created
- 1c) institution, ordinance</Ref> which is also translated creature 11 times
- ↑ 4189 πονηρία poneria pon-ay-ree’-ah from 4190; TDNT-6:562,912; {See TDNT 652} n f AV-wickedness 6, iniquity 1; 7
- 1) depravity, iniquity, wickedness
- 2) malice
- 3) evil purposes and desires
- For Synonyms see entry 5855
- ↑ 4124 ~πλεονεξία~ pleonexia \@pleh-on-ex-ee’-ah\@ from 4123; n f AV-covetousness 8, greediness 1, covetous practices 1; 10 1) greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice
- ↑ 2549 κακία kakia kak-ee’-ah from 2556; TDNT-3:482,391; {See TDNT 351} n f AV-malice 6, maliciousness 2, evil 1, wickedness 1, naughtiness 1; 11
- 1) malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure
- 2) wickedness, depravity
- 2a) wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws
- 3) evil, trouble
- For Synonyms see entry 5855
- ↑ 5355 ~φθόνος~ phthonos \@fthon’-os\@ probably akin to the base of 5351; ; n m AV-envy 8, envying 1; 9
- 1) envy
- 2) for envy, i.e. prompted by envy
- ↑ 5408 ~φόνος~ phonos \@fon’-os\@ from an obsolete primary pheno (to murder); ; n m AV-murder 8, slaughter 1, be slain + 599 1; 10
- 1) murder, slaughter
- ↑ 2054 ~ἔρις~ eris \@er’-is\@ of uncertain affinity; ; n f AV-strife 4, debate 2, contention 2, variance 1; 9
- 1) contention, strife, wrangling
- ↑ 1388 ~δόλος~ dolos \@dol’-os\@ from an obsolete primary verb, dello (probably meant to decoy; cf 1185); ; n m AV-guile 7, subtilty 2, deceit 2, craft 1; 12
- 1) craft, deceit, guile
- ↑ 2550 ~κακοήθεια~ kakoetheia \@kak-o-ay’-thi-ah\@ from a compound of 2556 and 2239; TDNT-3:485,391; {See TDNT 351} n f AV-malignity 1; 1
- 1) bad character, depravity of heart and life
- 2) malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness
- ↑ 5588 ~ψιθυριστής~ psithuristes \@psith-oo-ris-tace’\@ from the same as 5587; ; n m AV-whisperer 1; 1
- 1) a whisperer, secret slanderer, detractor
- ↑ 2637 ~κατάλαλος~ katalalos \@kat-al’-al-os\@ from 2596 and the base of 2980; TDNT-4:3,495; {See TDNT 423} adj AV-backbiter 1; 1
- 1) a defamer, evil speaker
- ↑ 2319 ~θεοστυγής~ theostuges \@theh-os-too-gace’\@ from 2316 and the base of 4767; ; adj AV-hater of God 1; 1
- 1) hateful to God, exceptionally impious and wicked
- ↑ 5197 ~ὑβριστής~ hubristes \@hoo-bris-tace’\@ from 5195; TDNT-8:295,1200; {See TDNT 803} n m AV-despiteful 1, injurious 1; 2
- 1) an insolent man
- 2) one who, uplifted with pride, either heaps insulting language upon others or does them some shameful act of wrong
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 5244 ~ὑπερήφανος~ huperephanos \@hoop-er-ay’-fan-os\@ from 5228 and 5316; TDNT-8:525,1231; {See TDNT 815} adj AV-proud 5; 5
- 1) showing one’s self above others, overtopping, conspicuous above others, pre-eminent
- 2) with an overweening estimate of one’s means or merits, despising others or even treating them with contempt, haughty
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 213 ~ἀλαζών~ alazon \@al-ad-zone’\@ from ale (vagrancy); TDNT-1:226,36; {See TDNT 45} n m AV-boaster 2; 2
- 1) an empty pretender, a boaster
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 2182 ~ἐφευρετής~ epheuretes \@ef-yoo-ret’-ace\@ from a compound of 1909 and 2147; ; n m AV-inventor 1; 1
- 1) an inventor, contriver
- ↑ 545 ~ἀπειθής~ apeithes \@ap-i-thace’\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3982; TDNT-6:10,818; {See TDNT 611} adj AV-disobedient 6; 6
- 1) impersuasible, not compliant, disobedient, contumacious
- ↑ 801 ~ἀσύνετος~ asunetos \@as-oon’-ay-tos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 4908; adj AV-without understanding 3, foolish 2; 5 1) unintelligent, without understanding, stupid
- ↑ 802 ~ἀσύνθετος~ asunthetos \@as-oon’-thet-os\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 4934; ; adj AV-covenant breaker 1; 1
- 1) uncompounded, simple
- 2) covenant breaking, faithless
- For Synonyms see entry 5892
- ↑ 794 ~ἄστοργος~ astorgos \@as’-tor-gos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of stergo (to cherish affectionately); ; adj AV-without natural affection 2; 2
- 1) without natural affection, unsociable (#Ro 1:31 marg.), inhuman (#2Ti 3:3 RSV), unloving (#2Ti 3:3 NKJV)
- ↑ 786 ~ἄσπονδος~ aspondos \@as’-pon-dos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 4689; ; adj AV-implacable 1, trucebreakers 1; 2
- 1) without a treaty or covenant
- 1a) of things not mutually agreed upon e.g. abstinences from hostilities
- 2) that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable
- ↑ 415 ~ἀνελεήμων~ aneleemon \@an-eleh-ay’-mone\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1655; TDNT-2:487,222; {See TDNT 232} adj AV-unmerciful 1; 1
- 1) without mercy, merciless
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