SINS OF THE HEART

• 1. Unrighteousness: The Greek word is “adikia,” which means, “unjust, injustice, what is not comfortable with justice, what ought not to be, that which is wrong,” every vice contrary to justice and righteousness. When men reject the Righteousness of God, there is an automatic unrighteousness that comes to them.
• 2. Fornication: The Greek word is “Porneia” or “Poneria” and means, “unlawful sex sins of single and married people.” This is a sin of the flesh.
• 3. Wickedness: The Greek word is “poneria” or “athesmos” and means, “depravity, iniquity, wicked, acting of an evil nature, criminal.” For instance, the homosexuals of Sodom and Gomorrah are called “athesmoi” in II Peter 2:7.
• 4. Covetousness: The Greek word “pleonektes” or “pleonexia” means, “avaricious, intense lust for gain, greedy or gain.”
• 5. Maliciousness: The Greek word is “kakias” or “Kakia” and means, “vicious disposition and desires, rather than their exercise, not only being evil but doing evil.”
• 6. Full of Envy: The Greek word is “phthonos,” which means, “to pine away, the pain felt and malignity conceived at the sight of the blessings of another” or the Greek word “zeloo,” which means, “a jealousy which makes war upon the good it sees in another.
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• 7. Murder: The Greek word is “phonou” and means, “one who commits homicide, slaughter and also hating one another.” You can have hate in your heart against another person so strong that your heart wants to hurt them. You can murder their reputation as well as killing the body, by your vicious gossip, slander, or telling of lies. It is a federal crime to murder someone by taking their life. However, the Christian can, through a vicious attack on someone’s character, commit “murder” even though they do not harm the physical body. They, in effect, “in God’s Eyes” have killed that person.
• 8. Debate: The Greek word is “Eridos” or “Eris,” which means, “strife, to cause strife and discord.” It is not the same as debating for truth as is found in Acts. It means contention or wrangling.
• 9. Deceit: The Greek word is “apatao” or “dolos” meaning, “lying, falsity, to bait, craft, subtly, to deceive or seduce into error.”
• 10. Malignity: The Greek word is “kakoetheia,” meaning, “taking everything with an evil connotation and giving malicious interpretation to the actions of others, a nature which is evil and makes one suspect evil in others.” A disposition producing evil habits. It means malignity of the mind which leads its victim to put the worst construction on every action, ascribing to the best deeds the worst motives.
• 11. Whisperers: The Greek word is “psithuristes,” meaning, “a secret slanderer, an accuser, a backbiter, calumniators, secret detractors,” those who pretend secrecy, and carry out accusations against men, whether true or false, blasting their reputation by clandestine gossip, meaning held in or conducted with secrecy.
  I will never forget as I was reading Romans 1:29-31, when I got to the word “whisperers,” I was not sure of its meaning. When I looked it up, I was shocked when I read it means to “carry out accusations against men, whether true or false.” Realizing that this even included repeating something that might be true against someone in order to spread gossip and hurt that person is “sin.” The following verse, Verse 32, says, “. . . they which commit such things are worthy of death,” and alarmingly, I realized that the whole church could fit into this category.
• 12. Backbiters: The Greek is “katalalia,” which means, “evil speakers, slanderers of absent men, false accuser, evil speaking, railing, defamation, accusation.”
• 13. Haters of God: The Greek word is “theostuges” or “echthra,” which means, “enmity, hatred, hostility, defamation, active malice, atheists, hateful to God, condemners of sacred things, despisers of providence, scorners of good.”
• 14. Despiteful: The Greek word is “hubristes” and means, “insolent, stormy, boisterous; abusing the characters and persons of others, scornful, hateful to use reproachfully, to treat with despite.”
• 15. Proud: The Greek word is “huperephanos” or “alazoneia,” which means, “to indulge in pride or self-gratification, be exalted, elated, glory in self, display or strut self before others, undue sense of superiority, unnatural self-esteem, arrogance, ostentatious, boasting.”
• 16. Boasters: The Greek word is “alazon,” which means, “vaunting in those things one does not possess, vain, and arrogant braggarts.”
• 17. Inventors of evil things: The Greek word is “epheuretes,” meaning, “to invent, to find, to devise, originators of wicked, immoral, and sinful customs, rites, and fashions; beginners of abominable religious orgies of Bacchus, the horrors of the arena, the debasing cruelties of cockpit, the degrading shows of the theatre, the gambling tables, etc.”
• 18. Disobedient to parents: The Greek word is “anupotaktos,” which means, “disobedient to authority, disorderly, indifferent to parents, to rule and order, irreverent.”
• 19. Without natural understanding: The Greek word is “agnoeo,” which means, “not to recognize or know, to be ignorant, unacquainted with, destitute of capacity for spiritual things.”
• 20. Covenant breakers: The Greek word is “asunthetos,” which means, “faithless, treacherous, a breaker of a covenant or agreement, not morally bound to any agreement.”
• 21. Without natural affection: The Greek word is “astorgos,” which means, “without family love, filled with desire for unnatural affection experiences with husband or wife or same sex partners in the homosexual and other sex sins.”
• 22. Implacable: The Greek word is “aspondos,” which means, “the absolutely irresponsible person who, being at war, refuses to lay aside enmity or to listen to terms of reconciliation, showing the highest pitch of an unforgiving spirit, he who cannot be placated, appeased, or pacified by God.”
• 23. Unmerciful: The Greek word is “aneleemon,” which means, “without compassion, without mercy, cruel, unappeasable, unforgiving, unyielding, destitute of all benevolence to the needy.”

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