Roma 1:28-32

1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ¹  God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. ²  1:29 They are filled ³  with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with ⁴  envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, 1:30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, ⁵  heartless, ruthless. 1:32 Although they fully know ⁶  God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, ⁷  they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them. ⁸ 

Roma 3:9-18

The Condemnation of the World

3:9 What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin, 3:10 just as it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one,

3:11 there is no one who understands,

there is no one who seeks God.

3:12 All have turned away,

together they have become worthless;

there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.” ⁹ 

3:13 “Their throats are open graves, ¹⁰ 

they deceive with their tongues,

the poison of asps is under their lips.” ¹¹ 

3:14 “Their mouths are ¹²  full of cursing and bitterness.” ¹³ 

3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,

3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,

3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.” ¹⁴ 

3:18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” ¹⁵ 

[1:28]  ¹ tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”

[1:28]  ² tn Grk “the things that are improper.”

[1:29]  ³ tn Grk “being filled” or “having been filled,” referring to those described in v. 28. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:29]  ⁴ tn Grk “malice, full of,” continuing the description. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:31]  ⁵ tn Or “promise-breakers.”

[1:32]  ⁶ tn Grk “who, knowing…, not only do them but also approve…” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[1:32]  ⁷ tn Grk “are worthy of death.”

[1:32]  ⁸ sn “Vice lists” like vv. 28-32 can be found elsewhere in the NT in Matt 15:19; Gal 5:19-21; 1 Tim 1:9-10; and 1 Pet 4:3. An example from the intertestamental period can be found in Wis 14:25-26.

[3:12]  ⁹ sn Verses 10-12 are a quotation from Ps 14:1-3.

[3:13]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”

[3:13]  ¹¹ sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.

[3:14]  ¹² tn Grk “whose mouth is.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:14]  ¹³ sn A quotation from Ps 10:7.

[3:17]  ¹⁴ sn Rom 3:15-17 is a quotation from Isa 59:7-8.

[3:18]  ¹⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 36:1.