slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
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,
- BSB slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
- NKJV backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, 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
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- 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
- Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
- 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
- Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
- Jas 4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
- Jas 3:5So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
- John 15:23–24He who hates me, hates my Father also.
- 2 Th 2:4he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
- Prov 25:23The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
- Ps 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
- Eccl 7:29Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
- Ps 106:39Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
- Rom 3:27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- 2 Chr 25:19You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”
- Ps 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —
- 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
- Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
- Rom 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
- 1 Kgs 20:11The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”
- Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
- Num 10:35When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
- Rom 2:23You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
- Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Ps 99:8You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.
- Acts 5:36For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Matt 16:21From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
- Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
- Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
- Ps 81:15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
- Deut 21:18–21If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
- Matt 15:4For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
- Luke 21:16You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.
- 2 Cor 10:15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
- Deut 7:10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
- Ps 10:3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
- John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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