NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

Romans 2:4

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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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Romans 2:1–7

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Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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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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