Romans 1:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;f for God hath shewed it unto them. ”

Romans 1:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because - The apostle proceeds to show how it was that the pagan hindered the truth by their iniquity. This he does by showing that the truth might be known by the works of creation; and that not...
Romans 1:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(9) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in (c) them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. (9) By their ungodliness he proves that although all men have a most clear and evident mirror...
Romans 1:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Romans 1:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

known . See Acts 1:19 . manifest . Greek. phaneros. App-106. hath . Omit. shewed . manifested. Greek. phaneroo. App-106.
Romans 1:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

19. Inasmuch as what may be known of God, etc. He thus designates what it behoves us to know of God; and he means all that appertains to the setting forth of the glory of the Lord, or, wh...
Romans 1:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. That which may be known of God - Dr. Taylor paraphrases this and the following verse thus: "Although th...
Romans 1:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Is manifest in them, &c.— Is manifest among them, for God hath manifested it unto them. See the next verse, and chap. Romans 2:15 .
Romans 1:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. Because that which may be known of God, х to ( G3588 ) gnooston ( G1110 )]. Three senses...
Romans 1:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Romans 1:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Apostle goes on to show how the Gentiles came to have such a knowledge of right, and how they repressed and contravened it. They had it, because all the knowledge that mankind generally possessed...
Romans 1:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 4 NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN Romans 1:18-23 WE have as it were touched the heart of the Apostle as he weighs the prospect of his Roman visit, and feels, almost in o...
Romans 1:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the only Power of Salvation Romans 1:13-23 We owe everything to our Lord, but since we can make Him no direct return, He has made men His residuary legatees. We are to think of others as having...
Romans 1:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Romans 1:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Romans 1:19 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

JEW AND GREEK ‘To the Jew first, and also to the Greek.’ Romans 1:16 The Jew and the Greek were respectively the loftiest and the noblest exponents of the races and religions of the East and...
Romans 1:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because that which may be known of God ,.... There are some things which could not be known of God by the light of nature; as a trinity of persons in the Godhead; the knowledge of God in Christ as M...
Romans 1:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. Ver. 19. Because that which may ] Heathens might know God the Creator, per species creaturarum (as...
Romans 1:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because that which may be known of God Those great principles which are indispensably necessary to be known, such as his existence, his unity, his power, his wisdom, his goodness, and his righteous...
Romans 1:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 Gospe...
Romans 1:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Excellency of the Gospel. A. D. 58. 19 Because that which may be known of God is mani...
Romans 1:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That which may be known of God; or, that which is knowable of God, viz. by the light of nature. The apostle, by a prolepis, prevents an objection which some might make in excuse of the Gentiles: ho...
Romans 1:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Wrath of God Is Revealed From Heaven Because Of Man's Ungodliness And Unrighteousness (1:18-21). In stark contrast to the righteousness of God being revealed ( Romans 1:17 ), we have the wrath...
Romans 1:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 1:18 . The wrath of God .—ὀργὴ Θεοῦ, God’s displeasure. The phrase is plainly anthropopathic. May express a particular instance of displeasure. Romans 1:19 . That which...
Romans 1:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 1:18-32 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 worship...
Romans 1:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 1:1-2 . Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.) Paul had not seen...
Romans 1:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 you...
Romans 1:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. What acquaintance man can have of God without Divine revelation Consider-- I. His means of infor...
Romans 1:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 1:1-45 I. INTRODUCTORY . Romans 1:1-45 A. Salutation with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of wh...
Romans 1:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Moral Decay of the Gentile World. The refusal to heed the natural revelation of God:
Romans 1:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 14:16 ; Acts 17:23-30 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; Jeremiah 10:10-13 ; John 1:9 ; Psalms 19:1-6 ; Romans 1:20
Romans 1:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Gospel of God Romans 1:1-19 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a...
Romans 1:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For what is to be known of God — Those great principles which are indispensably necessary to be known. Is manifest in them; for God hath showed it to them — By the light which enlightens every man...

Romans 1:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Romans 1:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 1:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 1:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 1:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 1:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 1:19 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Romans 1:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 1:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 1:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:19 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 1:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 1:19 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 1:19 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 1:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 1:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 1:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 1:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:19 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Romans 1:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes