A Debased Mind and a Merciless Society

The Good News and the Exchange · Romans 1

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Paul’s catalog moves from a refused knowledge of God to unrighteousness, greed, envy, strife, deceit, arrogance, faithlessness, heartlessness, and approval of evil. Murder and sexual acts are not visualized.

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28And just as they did not see fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do what is not fitting,

29filled with every kind of unrighteousness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and maliciousness; whisperers,

30slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

31senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

32who, although they know God's righteous decree—that those who practice such things are worthy of death—not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

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