Romans 1:18
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness...
When I read this this morning I was struck by a few things.
First, the convenient 'title' that came before it. God's wrath against sinful humanity (of course there were a lot more capital letters in the title...)
Secondly I was struck by what the verse didn't say.
It doesn't read
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness...
It doesn't even read
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godless and wicked human beings who suppress the truth by their wickedness...
Interesting?!
It does talk about wrath being revealed. Revealed seems a strange choice of word (a more in depth word study should probably follow...). Revealed, to me, has positive connotations. Wrath does not.
It also, most interestingly, talks of how this wrath will be revealed against (again, 'against' puts another tick in the negative connotations column. Wish it had said 'towards' instead) the characteristics of human beings (their godlessness and wickedness). It does not say it will be revealed against humanity itself...(does it?)
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