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Romans 1:24-25 KJV
Romans · chapter 1 · verses 24–25
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who 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 1:24-25 · King James Version
Romans 1:24-25 in context
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 81:11-12
- Acts 7:42
- Acts 14:16
- Matthew 15:14
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
- Ephesians 4:18-19
- Romans 1:26-28
- Leviticus 18:22
- Habakkuk 2:18
- Jeremiah 13:25
- 1 John 2:15-16
- Isaiah 44:20
Key words (Strong's)
- uncleannessakatharsiauncleanness, physical, in a moral sense the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate…G167 →
- worshippedsebazomaito fear, be afraid, to honour religiously, to worshipG4573 →
- dishonouratimazōto dishonour, insult, treat with contempt, whether in word, deed or thoughtG818 →
- creaturektisisthe act of founding, establishing, building etc, the act of creating, creation, creationG2937 →
- throughenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- changedmetallassōto exchange, changeG3337 →
- Creatorktizōto make habitable, to people, a place, region, island, to found a city, colony, state, to…G2936 →
- blessedeulogētosblessed, praisedG2128 →
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In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe, I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-32