Romans 1:19-21 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it to them.… They did not render to Him the honour that was His due; cherish towards Him those tempers of mind which became His creatures, or express the sentiments of devotion in worship befitting His nature and character. They forgot His unity, and gave Him not exclusive adoration; they lost sight of His spirituality, and instead of worshipping Him "in spirit and in truth," imagined Him to be gratified with what pleased the sensual appetites of corporeal beings; the impression of His infinite though unseen majesty (the majesty of eternity, immensity, omniscience, and omnipotence) being effaced from their minds, their homage was no longer that of "reverence and godly fear"; and, letting slip the remembrance of His infinite and irreconcilable separation from all evil, they served the God of light with the works of darkness, the "Holy One" with the mysteries of iniquity and impurity. (R. Wardlaw, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.WEB: because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. |
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