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Romans 2:5–6

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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
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From verse 5

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:14Rank 1 from verse 5
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    14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

  2. Romans 1:18Rank 2 from verse 5
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    18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

  3. Romans 2:2–3Rank 3 from verse 5
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    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

    3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

  4. Hebrews 3:15Rank 4 from verse 5
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    15While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

  5. 2 Peter 3:7Rank 5 from verse 5
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    7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

  6. Jude 1:6Rank 6 from verse 5
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    6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  7. Deuteronomy 32:34Rank 7 from verse 5
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    34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

  8. Romans 9:22Rank 8 from verse 5
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    22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

  9. 1 Samuel 6:6Rank 9 from verse 5
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    6Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  10. 2 Chronicles 30:8Rank 10 from verse 5
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    8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  11. 2 Peter 2:9Rank 11 from verse 5
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    9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

  12. Hebrews 3:13Rank 12 from verse 5
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    13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

  13. Hebrews 4:7Rank 13 from verse 5
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    7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

  14. Psalms 110:5Rank 14 from verse 5
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    5The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

  15. Zechariah 7:11–12Rank 15 from verse 5
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    11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

    12Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

  16. 2 Chronicles 36:13Rank 16 from verse 5
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    13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.

  17. Daniel 5:20Rank 17 from verse 5
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    20But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

  18. Deuteronomy 2:30Rank 18 from verse 5
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    30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

  19. Exodus 8:15Rank 19 from verse 5
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    15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

  20. Ezekiel 3:7Rank 20 from verse 5
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    7But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

  21. Isaiah 48:4Rank 21 from verse 5
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    4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

  22. James 5:3Rank 22 from verse 5
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    3Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

  23. Job 21:30Rank 23 from verse 5
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    30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  24. Joshua 11:20Rank 24 from verse 5
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    20For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

  25. Proverbs 11:4Rank 25 from verse 5
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    4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

  26. Proverbs 29:1Rank 26 from verse 5
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    1HE, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  27. Psalms 95:8Rank 27 from verse 5
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    8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

  28. Revelation 6:17Rank 28 from verse 5
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    17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

  29. Romans 11:25Rank 29 from verse 5
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    25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

  30. Amos 3:10Rank 30 from verse 5
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    10For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

  31. Exodus 14:17Rank 31 from verse 5
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    17And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

From verse 6

  1. Psalms 62:12Rank 1 from verse 6
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    12Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

  2. Jeremiah 32:19Rank 2 from verse 6
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    19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  3. Matthew 16:27Rank 3 from verse 6
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    27For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

  4. 2 Corinthians 5:10Rank 4 from verse 6
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    10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

  5. Jeremiah 17:10Rank 5 from verse 6
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    10I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

  6. Revelation 20:12Rank 6 from verse 6
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    12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

  7. Revelation 22:12Rank 7 from verse 6
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    12And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

  8. 1 Corinthians 3:8Rank 8 from verse 6
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    8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

  9. Isaiah 3:10–11Rank 9 from verse 6
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    10Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

    11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  10. Job 34:11Rank 10 from verse 6
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    11For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

  11. Ezekiel 18:30Rank 11 from verse 6
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    30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

  12. Galatians 6:7–8Rank 12 from verse 6
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    7Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

    8For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  13. Revelation 2:23Rank 13 from verse 6
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    23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

  14. Matthew 25:34–46Rank 14 from verse 6
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    34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

    35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

    36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

    37Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

    38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

    39Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

    40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

    41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

    42For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

    43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

    44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

    45Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

    46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

  15. 1 Corinthians 4:5Rank 15 from verse 6
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    5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

  16. Proverbs 24:12Rank 16 from verse 6
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    12If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

  17. Romans 14:22Rank 17 from verse 6
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    22Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

  18. Proverbs 24:2Rank 18 from verse 6
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    2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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DEFINED WORDS

Romans 2:5

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

after

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1. Later than or following in time or order. 2. Behind. 3. In pursuit of.

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hardness

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Sense 1: The condition of being hard, firm, or resistant. Sense 2: Difficulty or hardship. Sense 3: Figuratively, stubbornness or insensibility of heart.

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impenitent

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Unrepentant; not penitent; not repenting of sin; not contrite; obdurate; of a hard heart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

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wrath

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Fierce anger, indignation, displeasure, rage, or the punitive judgment and destructive action that proceed from it.

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against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

judgment

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The act, authority, process, cause, or result of judging; discernment, legal hearing, verdict, ordinance, justice, government, vindication, condemnation, or punishment.

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DEFINED WORDS

Romans 2:6

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render

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To give, deliver, present, offer, return, repay, yield, perform, or award what is due, required, produced, deserved, or entrusted.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:1THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2:2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

2:3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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2:6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

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2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

2:8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

2:9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

2:11For there is no respect of persons with God.

2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

2:14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

2:15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

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