people having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice; they are gossips,
Parallel translations
- WEB being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
- KJV Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
- BSB 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,
- NKJV being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
- NLT Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.
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Quick answer
Paul lists sins flowing from a debased mind: unrighteousness, immorality, wickedness, greed, malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit, and more. Sin against God produces a flood of sins against others.
Overview
This vice list shows that rejecting God does not free people but enslaves them to many evils. The sins named are largely social — harming neighbors — demonstrating that vertical rebellion against God breeds horizontal harm. The breadth of the list underscores Paul's point that sin is pervasive and touches every area of human life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
- Prov 16:28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
- Prov 26:20For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Ps 41:7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
- Rom 3:10As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
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