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Romans 1:30

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Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
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  1. 2 Timothy 3:2Rank 1 from verse 30
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    2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

  2. Jude 1:16Rank 2 from verse 30
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    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

  3. 2 Peter 2:18Rank 3 from verse 30
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

  4. James 3:5Rank 4 from verse 30
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    5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

  5. James 4:16Rank 5 from verse 30
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    16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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Romans 1:30

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evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

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disobedient

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Refusing or failing to obey a command, word, authority, or duty; not compliant with what was required.

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backbite

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To speak reproachfully, maliciously, or injuriously of another, especially behind the person’s back; a backbiter is one who does so.

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29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

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31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

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