Romans 1:29 NLT,NIV,ESV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 1:29

Being filled - That is, the things which he specifies were common or abounded among them. This is a strong phrase, denoting that these things were so often practiced as that it might be said they were full of them. We have a phrase like this still, when we say of one that he is full of mischief, etc.Unrighteousness - ἀδικία adikia. This is a word denoting injustice, or iniquity in general. The particular specifications of the iniquity follow.Fornication - This was a common and almost... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 1:28-31

Romans 1:28-31. And as they did not like ουκ εδοκιμασαν , they did not approve, to retain God in their knowledge Or rather, as εχειν εν επιγνωσει more properly signifies, to retain him with acknowledgment. For it is proved above that they were not wholly without the knowledge of God in the world: but they did not acknowledge him as they ought; did not use or improve the knowledge they had of him to the purposes for which it had been vouch-safed. Or, as Dr. Macknight interprets it,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 1:18-32

1:18-3:20 HUMANKIND’S SINFUL CONDITIONThe Gentile world (1:18-32)Because God is holy, just and true, he has an attitude of wrath, or righteous anger, against all that is wrong. He is opposed to sin in all its forms, and therefore guilty sinners are under his judgment. The Gentiles may not have received the teaching about God that the Jews have received, but they cannot excuse themselves by saying they know nothing about God. The created universe should tell them that there is a supreme being, a... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 1:29

filled . Greek. pleroo . App-125 . fornication . The texts omit. wickedness Greek. poneria. App-128 . maliciousness . Greek. kakia . App-128 . envy = jealousy. Greek. phthonos. Compare Matthew 27:18 . murder . Greek. phonos. Note the Paronomasia, phthonos, phonos. App-6 . See Acts 9:1 . debate = strife. deceit . Greek. dolos. See Acts 13:10 . malignity . Greek. kakoetheia , literally disposition for mischief. Only here. whisperers = calumniators. Greek. psithuristes . Only... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 1:29

Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practice them.There are... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 1:29

Romans 1:29. Wickedness— The original word signifies doing mischief: that rendered maliciousness denotes a malicious temper; and that rendered malignity, a custom of repeating their malice frequently. Unrighteousness or injustice stands first in this black catalogue, unmercifulness last. The whole enumeration contains nine particulars relating to the affections, two to conversation, three respecting God, themselves, and their neighbour; two to the transacting of outward affairs, and six to the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 1:18-32

A. The need of all people 1:18-32Perhaps Paul began by showing all people’s need for God’s righteousness first because he was the apostle to the Gentiles and his Roman readers were primarily Gentiles. His argument in Romans 1:18 to Romans 3:20 moves inward through a series of concentric circles of humanity."God never condemns without just cause. Here three bases are stated for His judgment of the pagan world. For suppressing God’s truth (Romans 1:18) For ignoring God’s revelation (Romans... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 1:28-32

3. The wickedness of mankind 1:28-32The second key word in Romans 1:18, "unrighteousness" (Romans 1:29), reappears at the head of this list of man’s sinful practices. It is a general word describing the evil effects in human relations that man’s suppressing the knowledge of God produces. In the Greek text there is a wordplay that highlights God’s just retribution. As people disapproved of the idea of retaining God in their thinking, so God gave them over to a disapproved mind (Romans 1:28).... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 1:1-32

The Power of the Gospel and the need of the World. The Guilt of the HeathenIn his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the centre of his message (Romans 1:1-7). After expressing his desire to visit the Romans (Romans 1:8-15), he states the subject of his Epistle, viz. acceptance with God through faith in Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16-17), and proceeds to develop it by showing that none have been able to merit acceptance... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 1:24-32

(24-32) Hence they fell into a still lower depth; for, in anger at their perversion of the truth, God refrained from checking their downward course. He left them to follow their own evil bent. Their idolatry developed into shameless immorality and unnatural crimes. At last the extreme limit was reached. As they voluntarily forsook God, so He forsook them. They ran through the whole catalogue of sins, and the cup of their iniquity was full.In the passage taken as a whole, three steps or stages... read more