Romans 1:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 1:19-21
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. …
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Proverbs 25:14
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. …

Topics

Adultery Ambition Arrogance Blind Blindness Conceit Concupiscence Confidence

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-32)

In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe, I. The means and helps they had to come to the knowledge of God. Though they had not such a knowledge of his law as Jacob and Israel had (Ps. 147:20), yet among them he left not himself without witness (Acts 14:17): For that which may be known, etc., Rom. 1:19, 20. Obse…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22-23. Professing themselves--“boasting,” or “pretending to be” wise, they became fools--“It is the invariable property of error in morals and religion, that men take credit to themselves for it and extol it as wisdom. So the heathen” (1Co 1:21) [Tholuck].