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

What then? Are we better than others? By no means! For we have already brought a charge both against Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

For the creation was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection,

in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption and brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

For which cause also, for the most part, I have been hindered from coming to you.