01.5.1. Corruption Condemnation Gentiles - Rom_1:18-32

Chapter 5i - CORRUPTION AND CONDEMNATION OF THE GENTILES - Romans 1:18-32

Romans 1:18-32 teaches that the punishment by God is being revealed against those who deny God’s character and His righteous standard. Sin falls into two divisions:
(1) ungodliness (asebeia, godlessness or impiety), and
(2) unrighteousness (adikia, unrighteousness or injustice). Ungodliness refers to the want of reverence toward the sovereign God; unrighteousness applies to the absence of morality. “For the punishment [orge, wrath or punishment] of God is being revealed [present passive indicative of apokalupto, to reveal, uncover, or disclose] from heaven against [epi, dative of disadvantage] every kind of ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who are suppressing [present active participle of katecho, to restrain or suppress] the truth in the sphere of unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18 -translation). The order is significant, since it goes from impiety to immorality. Thus, both the first and second laws are broken by men. When men disregard God, they have no regard for mankind. The following are persons against whom God’s punishment is being revealed:
(1) It is being revealed against the rejecters of general revelation (Romans 1:18-21).
(2) God’s punishment is being disclosed against those who exchange God’s incorruptible glory for a likeness of God’s creatures (Romans 1:22-23).
(3) It is being manifested against those who degrade their bodies to satisfy their hearts’ evil passions, and they are given over to their unrestrained desires as their punishment (Romans 1:24-27).
(4) God is manifesting His wrath against those who do not think it worthwhile to have a true knowledge of God. They are given over to a worthless mind as their punishment; and their corrupted, unrestrained minds are filled with all unrighteousness described by a list of horrible sins (Romans 1:28-31).
(5) He is revealing wrath against sinners because they have known completely the punishment by God that the ones practicing such things are deserving of death (Romans 1:32).