For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
18. For The connection here is not deemed very clear. Stuart thinks that this verse is connected, as the former one, with Romans 1:16. and that it includes a reason why the Apostle was not ashamed of the gospel: and Macknight seems to have been of the same opinion, for he renders γαρ, besides.
The gospel appears mean and despised to carnal eyes, Christ Himself hanged on a tree, the doctrine plain and unadorned, its professors everywhere run down. Yet I reckon him a true Christian who is neither ashamed of the gospel nor a shame to it. God's power works through it unto salvation for all who believe, making it the great charter by which salvation is conveyed to us.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 1:16-18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven,.... The apostle having hinted at the doctrine of justification by faith in the righteousness of Christ; and which he designed more largely to insist upon in this epistle, and to prove that there can be no justification of a sinner in the sight of God by the deeds of the law, in order to set this...