Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 1:27
Receiving the just recompense of their error — Their idolatry being punished with that unnatural lust, which was as horrible a dishonour to the body, as their idolatry was to God.
Receiving the just recompense of their error — Their idolatry being punished with that unnatural lust, which was as horrible a dishonour to the body, as their idolatry was to God.
Verse 27. _RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THAT RECOMPENSE_, c.] Both the women and men, by their unnatural prostitutions, enervated their bodies, so that _barrenness_ prevailed, and those disorders which are...
AND LIKEWISE THE MEN ... - The sin which is here specified is what was the shameful sin of Sodom, and which from that has been called sodomy. It would scarcely be credible that man had been guilty of...
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)...
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...
ALSO THE MEN. the men also. MEN. App-123. LEAVING. having forsaken. App-174. BURNED. were inflamed. Greek. _ekkaiomai._ Only here. LUST. Greek. _orexis._ Only here. TOWARD. App-104. WORKING. Gree...
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...
ἈΠΟΛΑΜΒΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ, ‘receiving as due.’...
ΟΜΟΊΩΣ (G3668) подобным образом, ΆΡΣΕΝΕΣ _pl. от_ ΆΡΣΗΝ (G730) мужчина, ΆΦΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. пот. masc. pl. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) покидать, пренебрегать. Part, выражает образ действия. _Aor._ выража...
AND LIKEWISE ALSO THE MEN— How just the Apostle's reflections are, and how pertinently he has placed this most abominable abuse of human nature at the head of the vices into which the heathen world we...
_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 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 t...
_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...
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...
IN THEMSELVES — _i.e.,_ upon themselves, upon their own persons thus shamefully dishonoured. THAT RECOMPENCE OF THEIR ERROR WHICH WAS MEET. — The “error” is the turning from God to idols. The “recomp...
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...
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...
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 (l) recompence o...
_Receiving in themselves the recompense...due to their error. That is, were justly punished for their wilful blindness and error, by which they had worshipped and adored creatures, instead of the Crea...
“ _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...
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...
27._Such a reward for their error as was meet. _They indeed deserved to be blinded, so as to forget themselves, and not to see any thing befitting them, who, through their own malignity, closed their...
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 LIKEWISE ALSO THE MEN LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF THE WOMEN,.... The very sin of "sodomy" is here designed, so called from Sodom, the place where we first hear of it, Genesis 19:5, the men of which...
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 th...
_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...
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 RECOMPENSE OF TH...
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...
__ Romans 1:27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense...
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...
This was the sin of the Sodomites of old, for which they were destroyed, GENESIS 19:5: see LEVITICUS 18:22. How meet was it that they who had forsaken the Author of nature, should be given up not to k...
and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error...
Origen Against Celsus Book VII nclination, or from not having Jesus to lead them to a rational view of religion, have not gone into these deep questions, we find that they believe in the Most High God...
Romans 1:27 G5037 Likewise G3668 also G2532 men G730 leaving G863 (G5631) natural G5446 use G5540 woman...
‘And in the same way also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of thei...
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...
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...
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 1:27. THE MEN; lit., ‘males.' The vice of sodomy was very prevalent in the ancient world. The description here is more intense, corresponding with the prevalence and intensity of the immorality...
TURNED (εξεκαυθησαν). First aorist passive indicative, causative aorist, of εκκαιω, old verb, to burn out, to set on fire, to inflame with anger or lust. Here only in N.T.LUST (ορεξε). Only here...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_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...
Romans 1:23; Romans 1:24...