Romans 1:18 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹⁸ So, too, there is a revelation from Heaven of the Divine Wrath against every form of ungodliness and wickedness on the part of those men who, by their wicked lives, are stifling the Truth.

⁴⁶ That servant's master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, and will flog him severely and assign him his place among the untrustworthy. ⁴⁷ The servant who knows his master's wishes and yet does not prepare and act accordingly will receive many lashes;

¹⁹ The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked. ²⁰ For he who lives an evil life hates the light, and will not come to it, for fear that his actions should be exposed; ²¹ But he who acts up to the truth comes to the light, that his actions may be shown to have been done in dependence upon God.

²⁴ Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was herself a Jewess, and, sending for Paul, listened to what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁵ But, while Paul was speaking at length about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became terrified, and interrupted him--"Go for the present, but, when I find an opportunity, I will send for you again."

¹⁹ This is so, because what can be known about God is plain to them; for God himself has made it plain.

²⁸ Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

³² Well aware of God's decree, that those who do such things deserve to die, not only are they guilty of them themselves, but they even applaud those who do them.

³ You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them-do you suppose that you of all men will escape God's judgment?

¹⁵ For they show the demands of the Law written upon their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self- defense-- ¹⁶ On the day when God passes judgment on men's inmost lives, as the Good News that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus. ¹⁷ But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will, ¹⁸ And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions. ¹⁹ Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent, ²⁰ And a teacher of the childish, because in the Law you possess the outline of all Knowledge and Truth. ²¹ Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal? ²² Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples? ²³ Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

¹⁵ Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

⁶ Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.

⁹ Much more, then, now that we have been pronounced righteous by virtue of the shedding of his blood, shall we be saved through him from the Wrath of God.

¹³ Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

⁶ Do not let any one deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the Wrath of God upon the disobedient.

⁶ These are the things on account of which the Wrath of God comes,

¹⁰ to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the Truth to their own Salvation.

¹ But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the Faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons, ² who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men's consciences are seared,