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# Connecting Statement:
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Though this section is speaking to the non-religious wicked person, Paul sums it up by stating both non-Jews and Jews are wicked before God.
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# self-seeking
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"selfish" or "only concerned with what makes themselves happy"
# disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second intensifies the first. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# wrath and fierce anger will come
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The words "wrath" and "fierce anger" mean basically the same thing and emphasize God's anger. AT: "God will show his terrible anger" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# wrath
Here the word "wrath" is a metonym that refers to God's severe punishment of wicked people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# tribulation and distress on
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The words "tribulation" and "distress" mean basically the same thing here and emphasize how bad God's punishment will be. AT: "awful punishments will happen to" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# on every human soul
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Here, Paul uses the word "soul" as a synecdoche that refers to the whole person. AT: "upon every person" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# has practiced evil
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"has continually done evil things"
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# to the Jew first, and also to the Greek
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"God will judge the Jewish people first, and then those who are not Jewish people"
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# first
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Possible meanings are 1) "first in order of time" or 2) "most certainly"
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/disobey]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/true]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/unrighteous]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wrath]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/angry]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tribulation]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/soul]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/jew]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/greek]]
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