Romans 1:28

28 And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}^[a], God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

Romans 1:28 Meaning and Commentary

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like
This accounts for the justness of the divine procedure in leaving them to commit such scandalous iniquities; that since they had some knowledge of God by the light of nature, and yet did not care

to retain God in [their] knowledge;
or to own and acknowledge him as God, to worship and glorify him as such; but took every method to erase this knowledge out of their minds, and keep it from others:

God gave them over to a reprobate mind;
a vain empty mind, worthless, good for nothing devoid of all true knowledge and judgment; incapable of approving what is truly good, or of disapproving that which is evil; a mind that has lost all conscience of things, and is disapproved of by God, and all good men:

to do those things which are not convenient;
which are neither agreeably to the light of nature, nor convenient to, or becoming the honour of human nature; things which the brutes themselves, who are destitute of reason, do not do.

Romans 1:28 In-Context

26 Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature,

27 and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "to have God in recognition"