Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Romans 1:32
Knowing] i.e. by conscience. Judgment] RV 'ordinance.' Have pleasure in] RV 'consent with.' A sign of 'complete victory over conscience, and complete callousness to the moral ruin of others' (Moule).
Knowing] i.e. by conscience. Judgment] RV 'ordinance.' Have pleasure in] RV 'consent with.' A sign of 'complete victory over conscience, and complete callousness to the moral ruin of others' (Moule).
Verse Romans 1:32. _WHO, KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD_] δικαιωμα, the _grand rule of right_ which God has revealed to every man, the knowledge of which he has, less or more, given to every nation of t...
WHO KNOWING - That the Gentiles had a moral sense, or were capable of knowing the will of God in this case, is clear from Romans 2:14. The means which they had of arriving at the knowledge of God were...
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)...
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...
KNOWING. Greek. _epiginosko._ App-132. JUDGMENT. righteous sentence. Greek. _dikaioma._ App-177. COMMIT. practise. HAVE PLEASURE IN. consent also to. See Acts 8:1. DO. Same as "commit", above. Thi...
_who knowing_ The Gr. relative is same word as Romans 1:25, where see note. Thus what is here stated of the world of sinners is, as it were, the _condition_for the special vices just enumerated: men a...
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...
ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. define once more the root of the evil—rejection of known truth—here as to the fixed judgment of GOD on such acts and persons. ΤῸ ΔΙΚΑΊΩΜΑ = the just decision or claim, cf. Romans 2:26;...
ΔΙΚΑΊΩΜΑ (G1345) то, что объявлено праведным, суд, порядок (TDNT; MRP, 209). ΈΠΙΓΝΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΠΙΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1921) знать. _Aor._ предполагает предшествование. Это основа действия главног...
WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, &C.— It seems here to be strongly implied, that to look with complacency on the vices of others is one of the last degrees of degeneracy. A man may be hurried by his p...
_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...
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. WHO, [ Hoitines (G3748)] - 'Such as,' KNOWI...
_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...
1:32 who (g-1) As in v. 25, 'who being such as so knew.' judgment (h-5) _ Dikaioma_ . what the righteous will of God requires; hence even an ordinance of his will, or a righteous act meeting his requ...
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...
KNOWING. — Again the word for “full or thorough knowledge.” With full knowledge of the sentence of eternal death which is in store for them. They show that it is no mere momentary yielding to the forc...
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...
Who knowing the (o) judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but (p) have pleasure in them that do them. (o) By the "judgment of God" he means th...
This passage in the present Greek versions is rather different from the Vulgate: but the text of the Vulgate is conformable to the most ancient Greek manuscripts, of which some are more than twelve hu...
“ _Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but applaud those who do them._ ” The relation of this verse to what precedes has be...
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...
REFLECTIONS Reader! let you and I both pause at the entrance on this blessed Epistle, and while we adore God the Holy Ghost for so precious a gift to his Church, let us beg of Him to give us an unders...
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...
32._Who, knowing the judgement _(61) _of God_, _etc. _Though this passage is variously explained, yet the following appears to me the correctest interpretation, — that men left nothing undone for the...
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...
WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD,.... Either of the law of God, the law and light of nature, by which they might in some measure know the difference between good and evil, and what was right and wrong;...
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. Ver. 32. _Have pleasure_] Or they patronize, app...
Rom. 1:32; Romans 2:1. "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. Therefore thou art inexc...
_Who, knowing the judgment_ Δικαιωμα, _the righteousness_, or _righteous judgment_, or _appointment; of God_ And because God's law is founded in righteousness, and is the rule thereof to us, the word...
KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD; their desert of his wrath. WORTHY OF DEATH; justly exposed to it. DO THE SAME; commit the crimes mentioned. HAVE PLEASURE; are pleased with others who commit them and en...
The depths of immorality and godlessness:...
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. Here is a striking and terrible arraignment and...
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...
HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM: Or, consent with them...
WHO, KNOWING THE ORDINANCE OF GOD, THAT THEY THAT PRACTISE SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO CONSENT WITH THEM THAT PRACTISE THEM. 'Who' -these very people, the Gentile...
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...
KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD; i.e. his just law and statute, or his justice in punishing sin and sinners. This the Gentiles knew by the light of nature, and by the examples of God's justice in the worl...
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them. [All were not guilty of all these sins,...
1 Clement For they that do such things are hateful to God; and not only they that do them, but also those that take pleasure in them that do them.[147] The Second Epistle of Pope Callistus And ther...
Romans 1:32 who G3748 knowing G1921 (G5631) judgment G1345 God G2316 that G3754 practice G4238 (G5723) things...
‘Who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with those who practise them.' Paul then draws out that man's sinfuln...
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...
Romans 1:32. WHO; or, as in Romans 1:25, ‘being such as.' This verse adds to the description of vices a deeper degree of immorality; showing how entirely the heathen are ‘without excuse' (Romans 1:20;...
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...
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...
THE ORDINANCE OF GOD (το δικαιωμα του θεου). The heathen knows that God condemns such evil practices.BUT ALSO CONSENT WITH THEM (αλλα κα συνευδοκουσιν). Late verb for hearty approval as in Luke 11...
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...
THEY KNOW THAT GOD'S LAW. "They" means the evil men and women just described. God's "natural law of right and wrong" is written in the minds of every human being! Compare Romans 1:19. DESERVE DEATH. T...
_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._ THE DISPLEASURE OF GOD WITH ALL WHO ARE PLEASE...
_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 1:32 People do not generally sin in innocent ignorance. They KNOW GOD’S RIGHTEOUS DECREE (at least in an instinctive way) that their evildoing deserves punishment....
_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...
Hosea 7:3; Mark 14:10; Mark 14:11; Psalms 50:18; Romans 6:21;...
THE WRATH AND JUDGMENTS OF GOD Romans 1:32; Romans 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we listen to the pulsings of twentieth century thought, we find that God is not only being denied by many, but his wrath...
Not only do the same, but have pleasure in those that practise them — This is the highest degree of wickedness. A man may be hurried by his passions to do the thing he hates; but he that has pleasure...
The apostle here closes the chapter with the blackest character that could be given of the Gentiles sin, namely, That although by the light of nature, and the dictates of natural conscience, they knew...