Romans 1:31
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
KJV
ἀσυνέτους, ἀσυνθέτους, ἀστόργους, ἀνελεήμονας·
Greek NT
insipientes, incompositos, sine affectione, absque fœdere, sine misericordia.
Vulgate
without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:
ASV
Foolish, dissolute: without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
4 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
ἀνελεήμων
aneleemon
adjective · 1×
ἀσύνετος
asunetos
adjective · 5×
ἀσύνθετος
asunthetos
adjective · 1×
ἄστοργος
astorgos
adjective · 2×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: ἀστόργους | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀστόργους | RP: + ἀσπόνδους
- ἀστόργους — SBLGNT
- ἀστόργους — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἀσπόνδους — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§401After that first sin, the world is virtually inundated by sin There is Cain's murder of his brother Abel and the universal corruption which follows in the wake of sin. Likewise, sin frequently manifests itself in the history of Israel, especially as infidelity to the God of the Covenant and as transgression of the Law of Moses. and even after Christ's atonement, sin raises its …
§2087Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us. St. Paul speaks of the "obedience of faith"9 as our first obligation. He shows that "ignorance of God" is the principle and explanation of all moral deviations.10 Our duty toward God is to believe in him and to bear witness to him.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210205.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Chapter 9.—Of the Perturbations of the Soul Which Appear as Right Affections in the Life of the Righteous. But so far as regards this question of mental perturbations, we have answered these philosophers in the ninth book687687 C. 4, 5. of this work, showing that it is rather a verbal than a real dispute, and that they seek contention rather than truth. Among ourselves, accordi…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 15:19 — There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he m
- 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
- 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
- Isa 33:8 — The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
- Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Matt 15:16 — And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
- Prov 18:2 — A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
- Rom 3:11 — There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.