 | InterVarsity Staff, - Religion - 1962 - 198 pages
...much more serious it is with God. The Apostle Paul puts failure to thank God at the root of sin: ' Although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him" (Romans 1:21). Today with the psalmist's help you have a chance to express your gratitude to God for... | |
 | Helmut Thielicke - Religion - 1987 - 230 pages
...this transparency of the natural world was of no help at all to men for the simple reason that "though they knew God they did not honor him as God, or give thanks to him"; in other words, man did not do the one thing that makes all the difference: he did not draw from it... | |
 | Louis B. Pascoe - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 256 pages
...complexity of their own thought. St. Paul in Rom 1:21 also criticized the philosophers of his day because "they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened." 51 According to Gerson, the principle of curiositas is also behind St. Paul's admonition to the Romans... | |
 | George Wolfgang Forell - Religion - 1975 - 324 pages
...perceived in the things that have been made. And then St. Paul continues: So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God...thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. (Rom. 1:18-21) The claim of the Apostle Paul is that human beings could indeed know God, since he has... | |
 | Robert H. Gundry - Religion - 2005 - 284 pages
...'suppress the truth' though they know better; consequently 'they are without excuse ' ( i : 1 8-2o) . 'Although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him' (1 : 21). God's abandonment of them to evil comes not by the attack of sin from without, but by the... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - Religion - 1982 - 302 pages
...deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; 2lfor although they knew God they did not honor him as God...darkened. "Claiming to be wise, they became fools, "and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or... | |
 | Judith Allen Shelly, Sandra D. John - Religion - 2009 - 184 pages
...ourselves first. The effects of sin are evident in our lives and clearly outlined in the Scriptures: For although they knew God they did not honor him as God...thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. (Rom 1:21) Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery,... | |
 | Robin Scroggs - Religion - 174 pages
...deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God...but they became futile in their thinking and their unfit minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal... | |
 | Fred O. Francis, J. Paul Sampley - Religion - 1984 - 420 pages
...deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; 21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God...darkened. "Claiming to be wise, they became fools, - 'and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals... | |
 | F. F. Bruce, Frederick Fyvie Bruce - Religion - 1984 - 478 pages
...God. One of the counts in Paul's indictment of the pagan world in his letter to the Romans is that, "although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks147 to him" (Rom. 1:21). If thanksgiving is God's due from all humanity for his gifts of creation... | |
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So they are without excuse; for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. 
