Romans 1:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Romans 1:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And changed - This does not mean that they literally “transmuted” God himself; but that in their views they exchanged him; or they changed him “as an object of worship” for idols. They produced,...
Romans 1:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And changed the glory of the (h) uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (h) For the true God they substituted another...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

changed. Greek. allasso. see Acts 6:14 . glory . Greek. doxa. See p. 1511. uncorruptible . Greek. aphthartos. Here; 1 Corinthians 9:25 ; 1 Corinthians 15:52 . 1Ti 1:17. 1 Peter 1:4 ;...
Romans 1:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

23. And changed, etc. Having feigned such a God as they could comprehend according to their carnal reason, they were very far from acknowledging the true God: but devised a fictitious and...
Romans 1:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. They changed the glory, etc. - The finest represen...
Romans 1:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And changed the glory— As their folly was evident in a variety of other vices, in which the philosophers of heathen nations joined with the people in general, so, particularly, in the early and alm...
Romans 1:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Relying upon their own wisdom, they wandered further and further from true wisdom, falling into the contradiction of supposing that the eternal and immutable Essence of God could be represented by th...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And changed the glory of the incorruptible God ,.... God is incorruptible and immortal in his nature, and so is opposed to all corruptible creatures and things: he has a glory which is essential to...
Romans 1:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 23. Made like to corruptible man ] God ma...
Romans 1:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

“Because that when they knew God The writings of Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Cicero, and other philosophers, which still remain, together with the quotations made by Just. Martyr and Clem. Alexandri...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Changed the glory of the uncorruptible God; you have the same phrase, Psalms 106:20 Jeremiah 2:11 ; and from thence it is borrowed. Into an image made like to corruptible man, &c.: the a...
Romans 1:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Man's Rebellion Against God Comes To Its Inevitable Fruition (1:21-25). Paul now demonstrates how man's refusal to know God results in man's fall into gross sin. We have already been told about th...
Romans 1:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 1:22-23 .—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 t...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - 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 1:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Professing themselves to be wise they became fools. The follies of the wise Futility of thought has reached the character of folly. What, in fact, is polytheism, except a sort of permanent hall...
Romans 1:23 - 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 1:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The result of deliberate folly:
Romans 1:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:2 ; 1 Peter 4:3 ; Acts 17:29 ; Deuteronomy 4:15-18 ; Deuteronomy 5:8 ; Ezekiel 8:10 ; Isaiah 40:18 ; Isaiah 40:26 ; Isaiah 44:13 ; Jeremiah 2:11 ; Psalms 106:20 ; Psalms...
Romans 1:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And changed — With the utmost folly. Here are three degrees of ungodliness and of punishment: the first is described, Romans 1:21-24 ; the second, Romans 1:25-27 ; the third, in Romans 1:28 , an...

Romans 1:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Romans 1:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 1:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 1:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 1:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 1:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 1:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 1:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 1:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 1:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 1:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 1:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 1:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 1:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 1:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 1:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes