Popular Bible Verses from ROM 1

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For I am not ashamed or embarrassed to proclaim the gospel of Christ, because it is not mere human philosophy or religious instruction—it is the very power of God actively at work to bring salvation to every person who places his trust in Christ. This salvation comes to the Jewish people first, and also to the Gentiles.

For in this gospel, God's righteousness—His way of declaring sinners righteous through faith in Christ—is being revealed and offered. This righteousness comes from faith from start to finish, received entirely by faith and lived out by faith. This confirms what the Scripture declares: "The person who is righteous in God's sight will live by faith."*

For ever since God created the world, His invisible qualities—specifically His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly visible and understood by human reason through observing the created order, so that all people are left without any legitimate excuse for rejecting Him.

For although humanity had true knowledge of God through creation, they refused to honour Him as the supreme God or express gratitude to Him as their Creator. Instead, they became futile and empty in their speculations and philosophies, and their foolish, unreasoning hearts were plunged into spiritual darkness.

These are people who deliberately exchanged God's truth for a lie, and chose to worship and serve the created things—whether nature, human beings, or idols—rather than worshipping the Creator Himself, who alone is worthy of eternal praise and blessing. Amen.

For God's holy wrath is revealed from heaven against every form of ungodliness in worship and unrighteousness in conduct that characterises fallen humanity—people who actively suppress and hold down the truth about God through their rebellious and unrighteous living.

For this reason—because of their idolatry and rejection of God—God gave them over as a further stage of judgment to disgraceful and dishonourable passions that violate His created design. For even their women abandoned the natural sexual relations that God ordained and instead engaged in sexual relations that are contrary to nature and God's design. And in the same way, the men also abandoned natural sexual relations with women and were consumed with lustful passion for one another. Males engaged in shameful sexual acts with other males, deliberately committing indecent and degrading behaviour, and receiving in their own persons the due consequences and penalty that their rebellion against God's created order demanded. And just as they considered it worthless to retain the true knowledge of God in their minds and deliberately chose to reject Him, God judicially gave them over to a morally worthless and depraved mind, unfit to make right judgments, so that they do things that are utterly inappropriate and contrary to God's will.

While claiming to be wise philosophers and enlightened thinkers, they actually became fools in their rejection of God. And they exchanged the glory and worship due to the immortal, eternal God for mere idols—images fashioned to look like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and even crawling reptiles—descending into increasingly degrading forms of false worship.