Parallel Verses

Twentieth Century New Testament

They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

New American Standard Bible

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

International Standard Version

slanderers, God-haters, haughty, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to their parents,

A Conservative Version

being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents,

An Understandable Version

slanderers, hateful toward God, arrogant, proud and boastful. They think up evil things to do; they disobey their parents;

Anderson New Testament

whisperers, evil-speakers, haters of God, insolent, 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,

Common New Testament

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Daniel Mace New Testament

whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

whisperers, calumniators, haters of God, insulters, proud, arrogant, practitioners of evils, disobedient to parents,

Goodspeed New Testament

They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful,

John Wesley New Testament

Whisperers, backbiters: haters of God, violent, proud: boasters, inventers of evil things: disobedient to parents,

Julia Smith Translation

Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

Modern King James verseion

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

backbiters, haters of God, doers of wrong, proud, boasters, bringers-up of evil things, disobedient to fathers and mothers,

Moffatt New Testament

defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,

Montgomery New Testament

They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

NET Bible

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

New Heart English Bible

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Noyes New Testament

slanderers, hated of God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of mischief, disobedient to parents,

Sawyer New Testament

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

The Emphasized Bible

Whisperers, detractors, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, vain boasters, inventors of vices, unto parents unyielding,

Thomas Haweis New Testament

backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents,

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

They were secret backbiters, open slanderers; hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of sin, disobedient to parents, destitute of common sense,

Williams New Testament

they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents,

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventers of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Worsley New Testament

slanderers, haters of God, injurious, haughty, proud, inventers of mischief, undutiful to parents, void of understanding,

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
κατάλαλος 
Katalalos 
Usage: 1

haters of God
θεοστυγής 
theostuges 
hater of God
Usage: 1

ὑβριστής 
Hubristes 
Usage: 2

ὑπερήφανος 
Huperephanos 
Usage: 5

ἀλαζών 
Alazon 
Usage: 2

ἐφευρέτης 
Epheuretes 
Usage: 1

κακός 
Kakos 
Usage: 46

ἀπειθής 
Apeithes 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

God Hands Sinful Humanity Over To Depravity

29 They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice. 30 They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents. 31 They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.

Cross References

2 Timothy 3:2

Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

Matthew 15:4

For God said--'Honor thy father and mother,' and 'Let him who reviles his father or mother suffer death,'

Matthew 16:21

At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

Luke 21:16

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

John 15:23-24

He who hates me hates my Father also.

Acts 5:36

For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.

Romans 2:17

But, perhaps, you bear the name of 'Jew,' and are relying upon Law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,

Romans 2:23

Boasting, as you do, of your Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law?

Romans 3:27

What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of Law? A Law requiring obedience? No, a Law requiring faith.

Romans 8:7-8

Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.

2 Corinthians 10:15

Our boasting, therefore, is not unlimited, nor does it extend to the labors of others; but our hope is that, as your faith grows, our influence among you may be very greatly increased-- though still confined to our sphere--

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Who so opposes himself to every one that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

James 3:5

So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how tiny a spark may set the largest forest ablaze!

James 4:16

But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.

2 Peter 2:18

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

Jude 1:16

These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

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