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Rom. 2:3 - 2:14 (fn. 1)

September 16, 2021

Rom. 2:3 And do you consider this, O man, who judge those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Rom. 2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?

Rom. 2:5 But, according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Rom. 2:6 Who will render to each according to his works:

Rom. 2:7 To those who by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruptibility, life eternal;

Footnote 1:
7,1) To - Verses 7-10 give the basic terms of God’s eternal judgment.

Rom. 2:8 But to those who are selfishly contentious and disobedient to the truth and obey unrighteousness, wrath and fury.

Rom. 2:9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who commits evil, both of Jew first and of Greek;

Rom. 2:10 But glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to Jew first and to Greek.

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

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

Footnote 1:
12,1) under - Lit., in law; i.e., in the sphere of law.

Rom. 2:13 (For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Rom. 2:14 For when Gentiles, who have no law, do by nature the things of the law, these, though they have no law, are a law to themselves,

Footnote 1:
14,1) by - The nature of man, as created by God, was originally good and corresponded with God and with His law. Although it was poisoned by the fall, this good nature remains within man. Hence, if anyone lives according to his nature and does by his nature the things of the law, the evil in him will be restricted.

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