Scripture Meditation-"God's Wrath Against Mankind"

Romans - Chapter One - Verses 18 - 32

God's Wrath Against Mankind

18. The wrath of God is being revealed
from heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of men who suppress the truth
by their wickedness,

19. since what may be known about God is
plain to them, because God has made it
plain to them.

20. For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualities--his eternal power and
divine nature--have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse.

21. For although they knew God, they
neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks
to him, but their thinking became futile and
their foolish hearts were darkened.

22. Although they claimed to be wise,
they became fools

23. and exchanged the glory of the immortal
God for images made to look like mortal man
and birds and animals and reptiles.

24. Therefore God gave them over in the
sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity
for the degrading of their bodies with one
another.

25. They exchanged the truth of God for a
lie, and worshiped and served created things
rather than the Creator--who is forever
praised. Amen.

26. Because of this, God gave them over to
shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones.

27. In the same way the men also abandoned
natural relations with women and were inflamed
with lust for one another. Men committed
indecent acts with other men, and received in
themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28. Furthermore, since they did not think it
worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God,
he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do
what ought not be done.

29. They have become filled with every kind
of wickedness, evil, murder, strife, deceit and
malice. They are gossips,

30. slanderers, Godhaters, insolent, arrogant
and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil;
they disobey their parents;

31. they are senseless, faithless, heartless,
ruthless.

32. Although they know God's righteous decree
that those who do such things deserve death, they
only continue to do these very things but also
approve of those who practice them.
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Holy Bible (NIV) New International Version.