Romans 1:18–32: What Makes God Angry
Romans 1:18–32 locates God's wrath not in ignorance but in refusal: people know God plainly from creation and still trade his glory for images and his truth for a lie. The repeated sentence that God gave them up shows wrath as God handing people over to the desires they chose.
Romans 1:18–32: The Universal Indictment
Romans 1:18–32 does not single out one group for special condemnation. It describes a universal exchange of God for created things and shows how God hands people over to desires they have chosen, a verdict that falls on the judging as well as the judged.
Why God Gave Them Over in Romans 1:18–32
Paul says the giving over is itself the judgment: God hands people to the very thing they insisted on. The passage diagnoses every human being, which is why Paul turns at once to the reader who judges others.