Romans 1:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

As they did

Retain

Not convenient

Ephesians 5:4

Philemon 1:8

General references

Bible References

As they did

For God’s wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,

Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!
We don’t want to know Your ways.

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.

Why does a fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom?

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

You live in a world of deception.
In their deception they refuse to know Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed:

TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.

Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

Come to your senses

and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,

who is the image of God.

and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.

taking vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.

Retain

They are called rejected silver,
for the Lord has rejected them.

Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you yourselves not recognize that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless you fail the test.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men who are corrupt in mind, worthless in regard to the faith.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

Not convenient

Coarse and foolish talking or crude joking are not suitable, but rather giving thanks.

For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

General references

However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.