King James Version
Romans 1:30 in the King James Version says “Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,” — study this verse from Romans chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”
Romans 1:30 · KJV
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; to retain: or, to acknowledge a reprobate: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: without natural: or unsociable
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. have: or, consent with
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“of evil things”
G2556worthless (intrinsically, such; whereas g4190 properly refers to effects), i.e., (subjectively) depraved, or (objectively) injurious
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