--- title: "Unrighteous Nations" description: "An investigative look at why ignoring the Creator leads to a total breakdown in common sense, morality, and human relationships." image: "" book: "Romans" bookId: "ROM" testament: "new" startChapter: 1 startVerse: 18 endChapter: 1 endVerse: 32 coversChapters: [1] aiTitle: "The Great Exchange: Why Society is Spiraling Out of Control" aiDescription: "An investigative look at why ignoring the Creator leads to a total breakdown in common sense, morality, and human relationships." hasAiStory: true location: "Rome" persons: ["God"] hashtags: ["gospel","judgment","righteousness","truth"] genre: "epistle" readingTime: 2 type: "adaptive" slug: "ROM/unrighteous-nations" canonicalId: "ROM.1.18-1.32" chronologicalOrder: 1657 relatedSlugs: ["EPH/righteous-living","2TH/the-day-of-the-lord","ISA/prepare-the-way-for-the-lord","PSA/psalm-19-the-heavens-declare-the-glory-of-god","LEV/unlawful-sexual-relations","PSA/psalm-81-sing-for-joy-to-god-our-strength","ACT/in-athens","JER/the-temple-sermon-part-3","2TI/warning-of-difficulties-ahead","PSA/psalm-8-how-majestic-is-your-name","ACT/the-visit-to-lystra-and-derbe-strengthening-the-disciples","1CO/sexual-immorality","JUD/a-greeting-from-jude-gods-judgment-on-the-ungodly","1TI/timothys-commission","JER/judgment-is-coming-part-2","TIT/pauls-greeting-to-titus-appointing-elders-on-crete-correcting-false-teachers","JER/the-sin-of-the-people","LEV/punishments-for-disobedience","1TI/instructions-concerning-false-teaching","ACT/the-rebellion-of-israel","MAT/what-defiles-a-man","HAB/habakkuks-second-complaint","PRO/hezekiahs-collection-of-solomons-proverbs-part-2","COL/rules-for-holy-living","ROM/dead-to-sin-alive-to-god","JHN/the-hatred-of-the-world-persecution-foretold","DEU/in-the-plains-of-moab","ISA/the-lord-has-chosen-israel","JHN/on-baptism","1TH/living-to-please-god","PRO/appeals-and-warnings","2KI/hoshea-the-last-king-of-israel-israel-carried-captive-to-assyria","ROM/from-death-to-life","HOS/gods-case-against-his-people","JHN/the-word-became-flesh","ROM/walking-by-the-spirit","1JN/the-first-test-of-fellowship","COL/alive-with-christ","COL/the-supremacy-of-the-son","HEB/redemption-through-his-blood","1CO/call-for-unity-in-the-church","GEN/sodom-and-gomorrah","PRO/avoiding-immorality"] prevSlug: "ROM/unashamed-of-the-gospel" nextSlug: "ROM/unrighteous-israel" --- It is no secret that things feel off lately. There is a palpable sense of tension as society drifts further from the basic truths that once held us together. The reality, as it turns out, isn't hidden; it has been clear since the beginning of time. Every sunrise, every complex design in nature, and the sheer power of the world around us serve as constant reminders that there is an architect behind it all. Despite this, people are choosing to look away, actively pushing these truths into the shadows to suit their own agendas. The central problem is a catastrophic trade. Instead of acknowledging the Creator and showing gratitude for life, humanity has decided to worship the creation itself. We have traded the eternal for the temporary—swapping out the ultimate reality for statues, trends, and self-serving idols. By crowning themselves as the ultimate authority, people have become 'wise' in their own eyes, though the results suggest otherwise. Their thinking has become cluttered and futile, and their hearts—once capable of light—are being swallowed by darkness. This decision to turn our backs on the source of life has triggered a chain reaction. It is as if the guardrails of common sense have been removed. Because people insisted on going their own way, they have been left to face the natural, messy consequences of their own choices. We are seeing a complete breakdown in personal boundaries, where people treat their own bodies and each other with increasing disregard. The natural order is being discarded for short-lived thrills that ultimately leave everyone involved feeling hollow. The fallout is now visible in the daily headlines: a total collapse of empathy and wisdom. It is not just a few bad actors; it is a systemic shift toward greed, malice, and a 'me-first' culture. The list of daily grievances has grown to include everything from petty gossip and arrogance to cruelty and the invention of new, inventive ways to cause harm. Worst of all, there is a growing trend of people who know these behaviors are wrong—yet they not only continue to practice them, they cheer on others who do the same. We have reached a point where we have stopped listening to common sense, and the silence in our hearts is getting louder. ### God’s Wrath against Sin The wrath of [God](/persons/god) is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

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