Romans 1:22

1 Corinthians 1:19-21; 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 3:19; Isaiah 47:10; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 8:8; Jeremiah 8:9; Matthew 6:23; Proverbs 25:14; Proverbs 26:12; Romans 11:25

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Professing themselves to be wise - This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to be called, “p...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(g) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (g) Or, thought themselves.
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 Div...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Professing, &c . = saying that they were. Greek. phasko . See Acts 24:9 . became fools . Literally were fooled (i.e. by their perverted mind...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. While they were thinking, etc. It is commonly inferred from this passage, that Paul alludes here to those philosophers, who assumed t...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be wise - This is most strikingly true of all the ancient philosophers,...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Professing themselves to be wise— The original seems equivalent to that term of Xenophon,— φαοκοντες φιλοσοφοι,— professing to philosophise, whic...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be ([ faskontes ( G5335 ) einai ( G1511 )] - 'boasti...
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 great...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They became fools. — They were made fools. It is not merely that they expose their real folly, but that folly is itself judicially inflicted by G...
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 i...
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 p...
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 resid...
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Professing themselves to be wise ,.... The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves σοφοι, "Sophi", wise men: and afterwards, to cover...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Ver. 22. Professing themselves to be wise ] Aristotle, nature's chief secretary, writeth man...
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 q...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Excellency of the Gospel. A. D. 58. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some think, that all along this context the apostle hath reference to the Gnostics, a sort of heretics in the first age, (of which see Dr. Hammond i...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,' Consequently they began to associate the divine with the world around and above them and set...
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 b...
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 w...
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 prop...
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 pr...
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 fa...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 1:1-45 I. INTRODUCTORY . Romans 1:1-45 A. Salutation with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel o...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The result of deliberate folly:

²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Related Commentaries of Romans 1:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 1:22