Unto vile passions (εις παθη ατιμιας). Unto passions of dishonour. Παθος, old word from πασχω, to experience, originally meant any…

For this cause. On account of what had just been specified; namely, that they did not glorify Him as God, that they were unthankful, and t…

For the second time the sad refrain is sounded—“God gave them over”— this time to immorality, with emphasis on perversion in sexual relations. What…

God therefore gave them up, etc. After introducing, as it were, an intervening clause, he returns to what he had previously stated concern…

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections
Because of their idolatrous practices, God left them to very di…

In the horrid depravity of the Gentile world, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: “Light was come into the world, but men loved darkne rat…

1. Having set forth the sin of ungodline , by which they sinned against the divine nature, the Apostle now sets forth the punishment by whic…