Romans 2:4-8

God's Righteous Judgment

4 Or do you despise c the riches of His goodness, d forbearance, and e longsuffering, f not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your 1 impenitent heart g you are 2 treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

6 who h "will render to each one according to his deeds": 3 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and i do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness - indignation and wrath,

  1. Cross References
    Romans 9:23
    And that He might make known the riches of His ...
    Romans 11:33
    Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom ...
    2 Corinthians 8:2
    That in a great trial of affliction the abundan...
    Ephesians 1:7
    In Him we have redemption through His blood, th...
    Ephesians 1:18
    The eyes of your understanding being enlightene...
    Ephesians 2:7
    That in the ages to come He might show the exce...
    Philippians 4:19
    And my God shall supply all your need according...
    Colossians 1:27
    To them God willed to make known what are the r...
    Colossians 2:2
    That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit...
    Titus 3:6
    Whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jes...
  2. Cross References
    Romans 3:25
    Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 34:6
    And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
    Romans 9:22
    What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction.
    1 Timothy 1:16
    However, for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all longsuffering, as a pattern to those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
    1 Peter 3:20
    Who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:18
    Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
    2 Peter 3:9
    The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
    2 Peter 3:15
    And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation - as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:34
    Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?
    Proverbs 1:18
    But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.
    James 5:3
    Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.
  6. Cross References
    Job 34:11
    For He repays man according to his work, And ma...
    Psalms 62:12
    Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy; For You ren...
    Proverbs 24:12
    If you say, "Surely we did not know this," Does...
    Jeremiah 17:10
    I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind,...
    2 Corinthians 5:10
    For we must all appear before the judgment seat...
    Revelation 20:12
    And I saw the dead, small and great, standing b...
    Revelation 20:13
    The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and De...
  7. Cross References
    Job 24:13
    There are those who rebel against the light; They do not know its ways Nor abide in its paths.
    2 Thessalonians 1:8
    In flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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