Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Without understanding (asunetouv). Same word in verse Romans 1:21.
Covenant-breakers (asunqetouv). Another paronomasia or pun. A privative and verbal sunqetov from suntiqhmi, to put together. Old word, common in LXX (Jeremiah 3:7), men "false to their engagements" (Sanday and Headlam), who treat covenants as "a scrap of paper."
Without natural affection (astorgouv). Late word, a privative and storgh, love of kindred. In N.T. only here and II Timothy 3:3.
Unmerciful (anelehmonav). From a privative and elehmwn, merciful. Late word, only here in N.T. Some MSS. add aspondouv, implacable, from II Timothy 3:3. It is a terrible picture of the effects of sin on the lives of men and women. The late Dr. R. H. Graves of Canton, China, said that a Chinaman who got hold of this chapter declared that Paul could not have written it, but only a modern missionary who had been to China. It is drawn to the life because Paul knew Pagan Graeco-Roman civilization.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 1:31:
Acts 17:16
Acts 17:27
Romans 1:18
Romans 1:29
Romans 3:9
Romans 3:19
Romans 11:30
Romans 11:32
Ephesians 2:12
2 Timothy 3:2
2 Timothy 3:3
2 Timothy 3:5
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