| Geneva Study Bible {11} And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a {m} reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (11) He proves the unrighteousness of man by referring to many types of wickedness, from which (if not from all, yet at the least from many of them) no man is altogether free. (m) To a corrupt and perverse mind, by which it comes to pass that the conscience, having been removed by them, and they having almost no more remorse for sin, run headlong into all types of evil. People's New Testament 1:28 God gave them over to a reprobate mind. A thought is repeated here that has already been hinted, and is often taught in the Scriptures. The man who turns from the truth will be allowed to have his way, will fall deeper and deeper into error, and will reap all the evil consequences of loving darkness rather than light. Those who hate the truth are given over to a reprobate mind. A reprobate mind is one rejected of God. Which are not convenient. Not decent, or honorable. Wesley's Notes 1:28 God gave them up to an undiscerning mind - Treated of, Rom 1:32. To do things not expedient - Even the vilest abominations, treated of verse s Rom 1:29 - 31. King James Translators' Notes to retain: or, to acknowledge a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind Scofield Reference Notes Margin did not like refused to have. Lit. did not approve God. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 28-31. gave them over-or "up" (see on [2182]Ro 1:24). to do those things which are not convenient-in the old sense of that word, that is, "not becoming," "indecorous," "shameful." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 1:26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light. The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation. | 
