Covetousness Crafty Cruel Death Debate Deceit Depravity Desire Dishonesty Dispositions Envy Evil Fighting Filled Fornication Full Goods Gossips Greed Habits Hate Hearts Immorality Kind Malice Maliciousness Malignity Manner Mischief Murder Overflowed Putting Quarrelsome Secret Sexual Slanderers Sorts Spiteful Statements Strife Talk Unrighteousness Whisperers Whoredom Wickedness Wrongdoing
1:29 Being filled, etc. The characteristics of those given over to a reprobate mind are now described.
Whisperers. Secret slanderers.
1:29 Filled with all injustice - This stands in the first place; unmercifulness, in the last. Fornication - Includes here every species of uncleanness. Maliciousness - The Greek word properly implies a temper which delights in hurting another, even without any advantage to itself.
1:26-32 In the horrid depravity of the heathen, the truth of our Lord's words was shown: Light was come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he that doeth evil hateth the light. The truth was not to their taste. And we all know how soon a man will contrive, against the strongest evidence, to reason himself out of the belief of what he dislikes. But a man cannot be brought to greater slavery than to be given up to his own lusts. As the Gentiles did not like to keep God in their knowledge, they committed crimes wholly against reason and their own welfare. The nature of man, whether pagan or Christian, is still the same; and the charges of the apostle apply more or less to the state and character of men at all times, till they are brought to full submission to the faith of Christ, and renewed by Divine power. There never yet was a man, who had not reason to lament his strong corruptions, and his secret dislike to the will of God. Therefore this chapter is a call to self-examination, the end of which should be, a deep conviction of sin, and of the necessity of deliverance from a state of condemnation.
Covetousness Crafty Cruel Death Debate Deceit Depravity Desire Dishonesty Envy Evil Fighting Filled Fornication Full Goods Greed Habits Hate Hearts Immorality Kind Malice Maliciousness Mischief Murder Others Overflowed Putting Quarrelsome Secret Sexual Slanderers Sorts Statements Strife Talk Unrighteousness Ways Whisperers Wickedness Wrongdoing
Covetousness Crafty Cruel Death Debate Deceit Depravity Desire Dishonesty Envy Evil Fighting Filled Fornication Full Goods Greed Habits Hate Hearts Immorality Kind Malice Maliciousness Mischief Murder Others Overflowed Putting Quarrelsome Secret Sexual Slanderers Sorts Statements Strife Talk Unrighteousness Ways Whisperers Wickedness Wrongdoing
