Romans 2:5

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“But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

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“But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.”

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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;”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;”

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“but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 2:5 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
  2. Exodus 14:17And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and horsemen.
  3. Deuteronomy 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
  5. Joshua 11:20For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
  6. 1 Samuel 6:6Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
  7. 2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
  8. 2 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  9. Job 21:30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
  10. Psalms 95:8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
  11. Psalms 110:5The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
  12. Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
  13. Proverbs 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
  14. Ecclesiastes 12:14For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
  15. Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  16. Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
  17. Daniel 5:20But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
  18. Amos 3:10“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
  19. Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
  20. Romans 1:18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
  21. Romans 2:2And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
  22. Romans 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
  23. Romans 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
  24. Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

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