“Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,”
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. The catalogue of vices (katalogos kakōn) erupting from the corrupted mind encompasses personal sins (greed, envy), relational sins (murder, strife), and social sins (deceit, gossip). These behaviors demonstrate the comprehensive nature of the fall into sin: it touches every dimension of human existence and relationship.
Church Fathers on Romans 1:29
“Being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness.” See how everything here is intensitive. For he says, “being filled,” and “with all,” and having named maliciousness in general, he also further pursues the particulars, and these too in excess, saying, “Full of envy, murder,” for the latter of these comes from the former, as was shown in Abel's case and Joseph's, and then after saying, “debate, deceit, malignity;”
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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