They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
(v29-31, NIV)
This is something I wrote up yesterday, so I am just typing it out:
You might say that you know people who are "good" and don't do the things listed by Paul here. In fact, you might think that of yourself. First of all, we are all sinners and have all fallen short of the glory of God. However, the point isn't that everyone who trades away the glory of God is given over to homosexuality or murder or strife. You may find someone or find yourself innocent of all on this list (though I highly doubt that they are innocent of all of them), but the point is that all and every kind of evil relates to God and is a God issue. It doesn't matter what you do, if it is in opposition to God, he has a problem with it (and so do you).
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