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Listen to Romans 1:18-32, Romans 2:1-11
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
18The wrath of God(A) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.(B) 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,(C) so that people are without excuse.(D)
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.(E) 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(F) 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(G) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over(H) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(I) 25They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,(J) and worshiped and served created things(K) rather than the Creator—who is forever praised.(L) Amen.(M)
26Because of this, God gave them over(N) to shameful lusts.(O) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(P) 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(Q)
28Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(R) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,(S) 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;(T) 31they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,(U) no mercy. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death,(V) they not only continue to do these very things but also approve(W) of those who practice them.
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Cross references
- Romans 1:18 : Jn 3:36; Ro 5:9; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6; 1Th 1:10; Rev 19:15
- Romans 1:19 : Ac 14:17
- Romans 1:20 : Ps 19:1-6
- Romans 1:20 : Ro 2:1
- Romans 1:21 : Ge 8:21; Jer 2:5; 17:9; Eph 4:17, 18
- Romans 1:22 : 1Co 1:20, 27; 3:18, 19
- Romans 1:23 : Dt 4:16, 17; Ps 106:20; Jer 2:11; Ac 17:29
- Romans 1:24 : ver 26, 28; Ps 81:12; Eph 4:19
- Romans 1:24 : 1Pe 4:3
- Romans 1:25 : Isa 44:20
- Romans 1:25 : Jer 10:14; 13:25; 16:19, 20
- Romans 1:25 : Ro 9:5; 2Co 11:31
- Romans 1:25 : S Ro 11:36
- Romans 1:26 : ver 24, 28
- Romans 1:26 : Eph 4:19; 1Th 4:5
- Romans 1:26 : Lev 18:22, 23
- Romans 1:27 : Lev 18:22; 20:13; 1Co 6:18
- Romans 1:28 : ver 24, 26
- Romans 1:29 : 2Co 12:20; 1Ti 5:13; Jas 3:2; 3Jn 10
- Romans 1:30 : 2Ti 3:2
- Romans 1:31 : 2Ti 3:3
- Romans 1:32 : S Ro 6:23
- Romans 1:32 : Ps 50:18; Lk 11:48; Ac 8:1; 22:20
God’s Righteous Judgment
2You, therefore, have no excuse,(A) you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.(B) 2Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches(C) of his kindness,(D) forbearance(E) and patience,(F) not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?(G)
5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(H), when his righteous judgment(I) will be revealed. 6God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a](J) 7To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor(K) and immortality,(L) he will give eternal life.(M) 8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(N) there will be wrath and anger.(O) 9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:(P) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;(Q) 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.(R) 11For God does not show favoritism.(S)
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Footnotes
- Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
Cross references
- Romans 2:1 : Ro 1:20
- Romans 2:1 : 2Sa 12:5-7; S Mt 7:1, 2
- Romans 2:4 : Ro 9:23; 11:33; Eph 1:7, 18; 2:7; 3:8, 16; Col 2:2
- Romans 2:4 : Ro 11:22
- Romans 2:4 : Ro 3:25
- Romans 2:4 : Ex 34:6; Ro 9:22; 1Ti 1:16; 1Pe 3:20; 2Pe 3:15
- Romans 2:4 : 2Pe 3:9
- Romans 2:5 : Ps 110:5; Rev 6:17
- Romans 2:5 : Jude 6
- Romans 2:6 : Ps 62:12; S Mt 16:27
- Romans 2:7 : ver 10
- Romans 2:7 : 1Co 15:53, 54; 2Ti 1:10
- Romans 2:7 : S Mt 25:46
- Romans 2:8 : 2Th 2:12
- Romans 2:8 : Eze 22:31
- Romans 2:9 : Ps 32:10
- Romans 2:9 : ver 10; Ro 1:16
- Romans 2:10 : ver 9; Ro 1:16
- Romans 2:11 : S Ac 10:34
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