📜WEB · Romans 2:5

What does Romans 2:5 mean?

"But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;"

— Romans 2:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

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who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

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to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

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