Romans 1:18 - Easy To Read Version God shows his anger from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. They have the truth, but by their evil lives they hide it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For God's [holy] wrath and indignation are revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it inoperative. American Standard Version (1901) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; Common English Bible God’s wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodly behavior and the injustice of human beings who silence the truth with injustice. Catholic Public Domain Version For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: |
“Be very careful if you say that a person is guilty of something. Don’t make false charges against a person. Never allow an innocent person to be killed as punishment for something he did not do. Any person who kills an innocent man is evil, and I will not pardon (forgive) that person.
God shows his anger, because everything that is known about God has been made clear to them. Yes, God has clearly shown people everything that is known about him.
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.
Those people know God’s law. They know God’s law says that people who live like that should die. But they continue to do those wrong things. And they say that people who do those things are doing right.
You also judge the people that do those wrong things. But you do those wrong things too. So surely you understand that God will judge you. You will not be able to escape.
So are we Jews better than other people? No! We have already said that Jews and non-Jews are the same. They are all guilty of sin.
Why? Because the law can only bring God’s anger \{when the law is not obeyed\}. But if there is no law, then there is nothing to disobey.
Christ died for us while we were still weak people. We were living against God, but at the right time, Christ died for us.
We have been made right with God by Christ’s blood (death). So through Christ we will surely be saved from God’s anger.
Don’t offer the parts of your body to serve sin. Don’t use your bodies as things to do evil with. But you should offer yourselves to God. Be like people that have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used for doing good.
Don’t let any person fool you by telling you things that are not true. Those evil things make God angry with the people who don’t obey.
The Man of Evil will use every kind of evil to trick those people who are lost. Those people are lost because they refused to love the truth. (If they loved the truth, they would be saved.)
And you know what is stopping that Man of Evil now. He is being stopped now so that he will appear (come) at the right time.