Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Being called with (peplhrwmenouv). Perfect passive participle of the common verb plhrow, state of completion, "filled to the brim with" four vices in the associative instrumental case (adikiai, unrighteousness as in verse Romans 1:18, ponhriai, active wickedness as in Mark 7:22, pleoneciai, covetousness as in 1 Thessalonians 2:5; Luke 12:15, kakiai, maliciousness or inward viciousness of disposition as in 1 Corinthians 5:8). Note asyndeton, no connective in the lists in verses Romans 1:29-31. Dramatic effect. The order of these words varies in the MSS. and porneiai, fornication, is not genuine here (absent in Aleph A B C).
Full of (mestouv). Paul changes from participle to adjective. Old adjective, rare in the N.T., like mestow, to fill full (only in Acts 2:13 in N.T.), stuffed full of (with genitive). Five substantives in the genitive (fqonou, envy, as in Galatians 5:21, fonou, murder, and so a paronomasia or combination with fqonou, of like sounding words, eridov, strife, as in 2 Corinthians 12:16, kakohqiav, malignity, and here only in N.T. though old word from kakohqhv and that from kakov and hqov, a tendency to put a bad construction on things, depravity of heart and malicious disposition.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 17:16
Acts 17:27
Romans 1:18
Romans 1:29
Romans 3:9
Romans 3:19
Romans 11:30
Romans 11:32
Romans 15:14
Ephesians 2:12
2 Thessalonians 1:11
2 Timothy 3:5
Titus 3:3
Revelation 21:8
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