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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
Romans 1:30 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • KJV Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • NKJV backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • NASB slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
  • NLT They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents.

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Quick answer

The list continues with slander, hatred of God, arrogance, boasting, inventing evil, and disobedience to parents. Sin includes both open hostility to God and the breakdown of basic relationships.

Overview

Paul's catalog continues, mixing attitudes (insolence, pride, boasting) with actions. 'Hateful to God' and 'inventors of evil things' show the active, creative wickedness of the human heart. 'Disobedient to parents' indicates sin's corrosion of even the most foundational, God-ordained relationships, reflecting a comprehensive breakdown of order.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 38

  • 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
  • Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
  • 2 Pet 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
  • Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
  • Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
  • Jas 4:16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
  • Jas 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
  • John 15:23–24Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
  • 2 Th 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
  • Prov 25:23As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
  • Ps 97:7All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
  • Eccl 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
  • Ps 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
  • Rom 3:27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
  • 2 Chr 25:19You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  • Ps 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
  • 2 Chr 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
  • Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
  • Rom 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
  • 1 Kgs 20:11And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
  • Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
  • Num 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
  • Rom 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
  • Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • Ps 99:8O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.
  • Acts 5:36Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
  • Matt 16:21From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and that He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
  • Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
  • Prov 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
  • Ps 81:15Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
  • Deut 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  • Matt 15:4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
  • Luke 21:16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
  • 2 Cor 10:15Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,
  • Deut 7:10But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
  • Ps 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
  • John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
  • Prov 30:17As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

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