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Romans 2:5

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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;
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  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.

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Romans 2:5

COMBINED MEANING

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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

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

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wrath

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

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.

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:

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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