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Paul’s Letter To The Romans
Romans 1:18-32
Read the following passages:
Ex. 9:16 Acts 14:17 Acts 17:24 Deut 4:15-19 Josh. 2:10-14 Ps. 19: 1-4 Hosea 4:16-19
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Although they claimed to be wise,
they became fools 23 and exchanged
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The wrath of the glory of the immortal God for
images made to look like a mortal
God is being
revealed from human being and birds and animals
and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave
heaven against all the godlessness
them over in the sinful desires of their
and wickedness of people, who
hearts to sexual impurity for the
suppress the truth by their
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degrading of their bodies with one
wickedness, since what may be
another. 25 They exchanged the truth
known about God is plain to them,
about God for a lie, and worshiped and
because God has made it plain to
served created things rather than the
them. 20 For since the creation of the
Creator—who is forever praised.
world God’s invisible qualities—his
Amen.26 Because of this, God gave
eternal power and divine nature—
them over to shameful lusts. Even their
have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, women exchanged natural sexual
relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the
so that people are without excuse.
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same way the men also abandoned
For although they knew God, they
neither glorified him as God nor gave natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another.
thanks to him, but their thinking
became futile and their foolish hearts Men committed shameful acts with
other men, and received in themselves
were darkened.
the due penalty for their error.
Lesson 2
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They have become filled with every
kind of wickedness, evil, greed and
depravity. They are full of envy,
murder, strife, deceit and malice. They
are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters,
insolent, arrogant and boastful; they
invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents; 31 they have no
understanding, no fidelity, no love, no
mercy. 32 Although they know God’s
righteous decree that those who do
such things deserve death, they not
only continue to do these very things
but also approve of those who practice
them.
Wrath of God:
Ungodliness:
Unrighteousness:
Perpetual motion:
1.
Why does Paul use the word “for” to start verse 18?
2. What group of people is under consideration beginning in verse 18 through the rest of the
chapter?
3. How did God manifest Himself?
4. What are the things that God says people can know about Him from creation?
5. Why did man exchange the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and
birds and animals and reptiles?
6. The expression “God gave them over” indicates God had something to do with them going over into these sinful
activities. What part does God play in this?
7. Beginning in verse 24 Paul unleashes a litany of sins. Why is Paul so descriptive and lengthy is his list?
8. Why are men lost?
1. Since the wrath of God is revealed through all ungodliness and unrighteousness, where
does that leave us?
2. How do we know God today?
3. How do we glorify God?
4. Are there still fools professing to be wise?
5.
Lesson 2
Lesson 2