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God’s Wrath         “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since 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 what has been made, so that men are without excuse.   For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.   Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.   Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.   They exchanged t...

The result of justification (10): Saved from God’s wrath     “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!” (Romans 5:9)                       This is similarities and differences from Romans 5:9 (“Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!”) and 5:1 (“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”): (1) Similarities: The first similarity is the same “we” (vv. 1, 9).   Here, “we” refers to we who were still helpless (v. 6), we who were yet sinners (v. 8), and we who were enemies (v. 10), that is “we” of the past before we believed in Jesus.   The “we” of the past refers to the “we,” whose souls were dead, as we were forever punished and forced to go into the fires of hell becaus...