Romans Chapter 1 Vs. 29

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Rom 1:29

Being filled with...

Twenty Stages of World Apostasy

1. They did not glorify God (Rom. 1:21).

2. They became unthankful (Rom. 1:21).

3. They were vain in their imaginations (Rom. 1:21).

4. They became dark in their hearts (Rom. 1:21).

5. They professed to be wise (Rom. 1:22).

6. They became fools (Rom. 1:22).

7. They changed God’s glory (Rom. 1:23).

8. They dishonored their bodies (Rom. 1:24).

9. They changed the truth to a lie (Rom. 1:25).

10. They worshiped creation as God (Rom. 1:25).

11. They served creatures, not God (Rom. 1:25).

12. They submitted to vile passions (Rom. 1:26).

13. Women became lesbians (Rom. 1:26).

14. Men went into sodomy (Rom. 1:27).

15. They rejected knowledge of God (Rom. 1:28).

16. They became reprobate in mind (Rom. 1:28).

17. They were completely perverted sexually (Rom. 1:28).

18. They were filled with iniquities (Rom. 1:29-31).

19. They despised the coming judgment.

20. They gloried in wickedness (Rom. 1:32).

filled... Greek: pleroo, to fill up, complete.

Unrighteousness... Greek: adikia, every vice contrary to justice and righteousness. See note, Rom. 1:18.

fornication... Greek: porneia, unlawful sexual sins of single and married people. See note, Mat. 5:32.

wickedness... Greek: poneria, depravity; iniquity; wicked acting of the evil nature; criminal.

Covetousness... Greek: pleonexia, intense lust for gain. See note, Luke 12:15.

maliciousness... Greek: kakia, the vicious disposition and desires, rather than their exercise.

envy... Greek: phthonos, to pine away; the pain felt and malignity conceived at the sight of the blessing of another.

Murder... Greek: phonos, murder (Mat. 15:19; Mar. 7:21; 15:7; Luke 23:19, 23:25; Rom. 1:29; Gal. 5:21; Rev. 9:21); slaughter (Acts 9:1). Also hating another (1Jn. 3:15).

debate... Greek: eris, strife (Rom. 13:13; 1Cor. 3:3; Phlp. 1:15; 1Tim. 6:4); contention (1Cor. 1:11; Tit. 3:9); debate (Rom. 1:29; 2Cor. 12:20); and variance (Gal. 5:20). It means to cause strife and discord. It is not the same as disputing for truth as in Acts 9:29; 15:2, 15:7; 17:17; 19:8-9.

deceit... Greek: dolos, lying, falsity. From delo, to take with a bait. Translated "guile" (John 1:47; 2Cor. 12:16; 1Thes. 2:3; 1Pet. 2:1, 2:22; 3:10; Rev. 14:5); "deceit" (Mar. 7:22; Rom. 1:29); craft (Mar. 14:1); and "subtilty" (Mat. 26:4; Acts 13:10).

malignity... Greek: kakoetheia, a disposition producing evil habits. It means malignity of the mind, which leads its victim to put the worst construction on every action; ascribing to the best deeds the worst motives.

Whisperers... Greek: psithuristes, slanderers; those who pretend secrecy, and carry out accusations against people, whether true or false; blasting their reputation by clandestine gossip.

The mental vacuum created by dismissing God was filled (the perf. tense implies filled full) with four forms of active sin: wickedness (adikia; cf. Rom. 1:18), evil (ponēria), greed, and depravity (kakia, “badness or malice”). These four in turn express themselves in 17 more specific types of wickedness. The first two, envy and murder, sound much alike in Greek: phthonou and phonou.