Romans 1:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. ”

Romans 1:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who changed the truth of God - This is a repetition of the declaration in Romans 1:23 , in another form. The phrase, “the truth of God” is a Hebrew phrase, meaning “the true God.” In such a case...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Who . Since they. changed . Greek. metallasso . only here and Romans 1:26 . A stronger word than in Romans 1:23 . the truth of God into. lie . the truth of God for the lie. Man transferred hi...
Romans 1:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

25. Who changed, etc. He repeats what he had said before, though in different words, in order to fix it deeper in our minds. When the truth of God is turned to a lie, his glory is oblitera...
Romans 1:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Changed the truth of God into a lie - In the place of the true wo...
Romans 1:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who changed the truth of God into a lie— Elsner takes great pains to shew, that the truth of God, here signifies what he really was; and a lie, a false representation. It is well known that ido...
Romans 1:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Who changed, х hoitines ( G3748 ) meteellaxan (...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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...
Romans 1:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 5 MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN Romans 1:24-32 WHEREFORE God gave them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, so as to dishonour their bodies among themselves....
Romans 1:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

from Gross Sins of the Flesh Romans 1:24-32 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 h...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who changed the truth of God into a lie ,.... Not the truth of the Gospel, which they were unacquainted with; but that which might be known of God as true, and was known of them by the light of natu...
Romans 1:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Ver. 25. Who changed ] They tare out their natural principles...
Romans 1:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherefore God gave them up As a punishment of this most unreasonable and scandalous idolatry, God withdrew his restraining grace from them as he did from the antediluvians, Genesis 6:3 ; the conse...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Who changed the truth of God into a lie; i.e. the God of truth, or the true God, into an idol, which is a lie, which seems to be that which it is not: or else, by the truth of God, understand th...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - 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 1:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. The consequences of the Divine abandonment You have merely to loose the connection, and the trucks by their own weight rush down the incline, and...
Romans 1:25 - 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 1:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The result of deliberate folly:
Romans 1:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:15 ; 1 John 2:16 ; 1 John 5:20 ; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 ; 1 Timothy 1:11 ; 1 Timothy 1:17 ; 2 Corinthians 11:31 ; 2 Timothy 3:4 ; Amos 2:4 ; Ephesians 3:21 ; Habakkuk 2:18 ; Isaiah...
Romans 1:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Who changed the truth — The true worship of God. Into a lie — False, abominable idolatries. And worshipped — Inwardly. And served — Outwardly.

Romans 1:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 1:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 1:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 1:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 1:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 1:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 1:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 1:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 1:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 1:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 1:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 1:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 1:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 1:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 1:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 1:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 1:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 1:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 1:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes