Romans 1:15-25

15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[a] just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”[b]

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For 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, so that people are without excuse.
21 For 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.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

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Cross References 22

  • 1. Romans 15:20
  • 2. 2 Timothy 1:8
  • 3. 1 Corinthians 1:18
  • 4. S John 3:15
  • 5. Acts 3:26; Acts 13:46
  • 6. S Acts 13:46; Romans 2:9,10
  • 7. Romans 3:21; Philippians 3:9
  • 8. S Romans 9:30
  • 9. Habakkuk 2:4; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38
  • 10. John 3:36; Romans 5:9; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 19:15
  • 11. Acts 14:17
  • 12. Psalms 19:1-6
  • 13. Romans 2:1
  • 14. Genesis 8:21; Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 17:9; Ephesians 4:17,18
  • 15. 1 Corinthians 1:20,27; 1 Corinthians 3:18,19
  • 16. Deuteronomy 4:16,17; Psalms 106:20; Jeremiah 2:11; Acts 17:29
  • 17. ver 26,28; Psalms 81:12; Ephesians 4:19
  • 18. 1 Peter 4:3
  • 19. Isaiah 44:20
  • 20. Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 13:25; Jeremiah 16:19,20
  • 21. Romans 9:5; 2 Corinthians 11:31
  • 22. S Romans 11:36

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