Romans 1:31
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Other Translations of Romans 1:31
New International Version
31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.
English Standard Version
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
The Message
31 Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded.
New King James Version
31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,
New Living Translation
31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Romans 1:31
Commentary on Romans 1:26-32
(Read Romans 1:26-32)
In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: "Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light." The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation.