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26 For this reason God gave them up to avile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.  
27 Likewise also the1 men, leaving the natural use of the2 woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.  
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things awhich are not fitting;  
29 being filled with all unrighteousness,1 sexual immorality, wickedness,2 covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,  
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 1undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,2 unforgiving, unmerciful;  
32 who, aknowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things bare deserving of death, not only do the same but also capprove of those who practice them. 
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Adam Clarke
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Romans 1:28

They did not like to retain God - It would, perhaps, be more literal to translate , They Did Not Search to retain God in their knowledge. They did not examine the evidences before them (Romans 1:19, Romans 1:20) of his being and attributes; therefore God gave them over to a Reprobate mind, , to an Unsearching or undiscerning mind; for it is the same word in both places. They did not reflect on the proofs they had of the Divine nature, and God abandoned them to the operations of a mind incapable of reflection. How men of such powers and learning, as many of the Greek and Roman philosophers and poets really were, could reason so inconsecutively concerning things moral and Divine is truly astonishing. But here we see the hand of a just and avenging God; they abused their powers, and God deprived them of the right use of these powers.




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