Parallel Verses New International Version 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,
English Standard Version They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
New American Standard Bible being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
King James Bible Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Holman Christian Standard Bible They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
International Standard Version They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and viciousness. They are gossips,
American Standard Version being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Douay-Rheims Bible Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,
Darby Bible Translation being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
Young's Literal Translation having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
Cross References Matthew 5:32 But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, contentions, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults:
1 Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Jump to Previous Covetousness Crafty Cruel Death Debate Deceit Depravity Desire Dishonesty Envy Evil Fighting Filled Fornication Full Goods Greed Habits Hate Hearts Immorality Kind Malice Maliciousness Mischief Murder Others Overflowed Putting Quarrelsome Secret Sexual Slanderers Sorts Statements Strife Talk Unrighteousness Ways Whisperers Wickedness WrongdoingJump to Next Covetousness Crafty Cruel Death Debate Deceit Depravity Desire Dishonesty Envy Evil Fighting Filled Fornication Full Goods Greed Habits Hate Hearts Immorality Kind Malice Maliciousness Mischief Murder Others Overflowed Putting Quarrelsome Secret Sexual Slanderers Sorts Statements Strife Talk Unrighteousness Ways Whisperers Wickedness WrongdoingCommentaries 1:26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light. The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation.
28-31. gave them over—or "up" (see on [2182]Ro 1:24). to do those things which are not convenient—in the old sense of that word, that is, "not becoming," "indecorous," "shameful." |
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