Romans 1:30 “slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent…”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

World English Bible

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

American Standard Version

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Geneva Bible 1599

Backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proude, boasters, inuenters of euil things, disobedient to parents, without vnderstanding, couenant breakers, without naturall affection, such as can neuer be appeased, mercilesse.

Darby Translation

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Young's Literal Translation

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Bible in Basic English

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

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Cross references

“Backbiters”

Proverbs 25:23

Proverbs 25:23 · BSB

As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

“haters”

Titus 3:3 Numbers 10:35 Deuteronomy 7:10 2 Chronicles 19:2 Psalm 81:15 Proverbs 8:36

Titus 3:3 · BSB

For 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.

Numbers 10:35 · BSB

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”

Deuteronomy 7:10 · BSB

But 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.

2 Chronicles 19:2 · BSB

Jehu 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.

Psalm 81:15 · BSB

Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.

Proverbs 8:36 · BSB

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

“boasters”

Jude 1:16 2 Peter 2:18 James 3:5 James 4:16 Romans 2:17 Romans 2:23

Jude 1:16 · BSB

These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

2 Peter 2:18 · BSB

With 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.

James 3:5 · BSB

In 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.

James 4:16 · BSB

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

Romans 2:17 · BSB

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Romans 2:23 · BSB

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

“inventors”

Psalm 99:8 Psalm 106:39 Ecclesiastes 7:29

Psalm 99:8 · BSB

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

Psalm 106:39 · BSB

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 · BSB

Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made mankind upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

“disobedient”

2 Timothy 3:2 Deuteronomy 21:18–21 Deuteronomy 27:16 Ezekiel 22:7 Matthew 16:21 Matthew 15:4

2 Timothy 3:2 · BSB

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Deuteronomy 21:18–21 · BSB

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

Deuteronomy 27:16 · BSB

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Ezekiel 22:7 · BSB

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Matthew 16:21 · BSB

From 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…

Matthew 15:4 · BSB

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

29They 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,

31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

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