Romans 1:19
Good News Translation
God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain.

New Revised Standard Version
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

Contemporary English Version
They know everything that can be known about God, because God has shown it all to them.

New American Bible
For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them.

that which.

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.

Psalm 19:1-6 Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands. . . .

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing.

Jeremiah 10:10-13 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening. . . .

Acts 14:16 Who in times past, suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 17:23-30 For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you: . . .

in them.

John 1:9 That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

Context
God's Wrath against Sin
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice: 19Because that which is known of God is manifest in them. For God hath manifested it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. His eternal power also and divinity: so that they are inexcusable.…
Cross References
Psalm 19:1
Unto the end. A Psalm for David. [2] The heavens shew forth the glory of God, and the firmament declareth the work of his hands.

Isaiah 40:21
Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth?

Acts 14:17
Nevertheless he left not himself without testimony, doing good from heaven, giving rains and fruitful Seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Acts 17:24
God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Romans 2:14
For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.

Romans 1:18
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