John Calvin Commentary Romans 1:32

"who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them." — Romans 1:32 (ASV)

Who, knowing the judgment of God, etc. Though this passage is variously explained, yet the following appears to me the most correct interpretation — that men left nothing undone for the purpose of giving unbridled liberty to their sinful propensities. For having taken away all distinction between good and evil, they approved in themselves and in others those things which they knew displeased God and would be condemned by his righteous judgment. For it is the summit of all evils when the sinner is so void of shame that he is pleased with his own vices, will not tolerate being reproved for them, and also cherishes them in others by his consent and approval. This desperate wickedness is thus described in Scripture:

“They boast when they do evil,” (Proverbs 2:14).

“She has spread out her feet,
and gloried in her wickedness,” (Ezekiel 16:25).

For he who is ashamed is still healable; but when such impudence develops through a sinful habit, that vices, and not virtues, please us and are approved, there is no more any hope of reformation. Such, then, is the interpretation I give. For I see that the Apostle meant here to condemn something more grievous and more wicked than the very doing of vices: what that is, I do not know, unless we refer to that which is the summit of all wickedness — that is, when wretched men, having cast away all shame, champion vices in opposition to the righteousness of God.