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Romans 2:5

But because of your callous stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are [deliberately] storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Gentiles;   God Continued...;   Heart;   Impenitence;   Judgment;   Wicked (People);   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Life;   Thompson Chain Reference - Day;   Great;   Hardness (of Heart);   Heart;   Penitence-Impenitence;   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Rendering;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;   Day;   Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;   Judgment, the;   Long-Suffering of God, the;   Punishment of the Wicked, the;   Righteousness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anger;   Day of the lord;   Judgment;   Justification;   Propitiation;   Punishment;   Righteousness;   Wrath;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Anger;   Condemnation;   Glorification;   God;   Judgment, Day of;   Justice;   Motives;   Paul the Apostle;   Repentance;   Wrath of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hell;   Judgment, Last;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgment, the Final;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Day of the Lord;   Eschatology;   Judgment Day;   Romans, Book of;   Wrath, Wrath of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anger (Wrath) of God;   Justification, Justify;   Resurrection;   Righteousness;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Anger;   Apocalypse;   Day and Night;   Destruction;   God;   Hardening of Heart;   Heart ;   Judgment Damnation;   Parousia;   Quotations;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin;   Sin (2);   Trade and Commerce;   Virtue;   Will;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day of the Lord (Yahweh);   Father, God the;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Hard;   Harden;   Immortal;   Justice;   Parousia;   Punishment, Everlasting;   Reconcile;   Retribution;   Wrath (Anger);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Saul of Tarsus;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But you are so stubborn! You refuse to change. So you are making your own punishment greater and greater. You will be punished on the day when God will show his anger. On that day everyone will see how right God is to judge people.
Revised Standard Version
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But thou after thyne harde herte yt canot repet heapest ye togedder the treasure of wrath agaynste the daye of vengeauce when shalbe opened ye rightewes iudgemet of god
Hebrew Names Version
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
International Standard Version
But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.Deuteronomy 32:34; James 5:3;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
New Century Version
But you are stubborn and refuse to change, so you are making your own punishment even greater on the day he shows his anger. On that day everyone will see God's right judgments.
Update Bible Version
but after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Webster's Bible Translation
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
English Standard Version
But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
World English Bible
But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up to thyself wrath in the day of wrath, and revelation, and righteous judgment of God?
Weymouth's New Testament
The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements will stand revealed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But aftir thin hardnesse and vnrepentaunt herte, thou tresorist to thee wraththe in the dai of wraththe and of schewyng of the riytful doom of God,
English Revised Version
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;
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
But you are stubborn and refuse to turn to God. So you are making things even worse for yourselves on that day when he will show how angry he is and will judge the world with fairness.
American Standard Version
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;
Bible in Basic English
But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
Complete Jewish Bible
But by your stubbornness, by your unrepentant heart, you are storing up anger for yourself on the Day of Anger, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed;
Darby Translation
but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in [the] day of wrath and revelation of [the] righteous judgment of God,
Etheridge Translation
Yet, through the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, layest thou up the treasure of wrath for the day of wrath, and the revelation of the just judgment of Aloha,
Murdock Translation
But, because of the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store of wrath against the day of wrath, and against the revelation of the righteous judgment of God:
King James Version (1611)
But after thy hardnesse, and impenitent heart, treasurest vp vnto thy selfe wrath, against the day of wrath, and reuelation of the righteous iudgement of God:
New Living Translation
But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
New Life Bible
Because you are not sorry for your sins and will not turn from them, you will be punished even more on the day of God's anger. God will be right in saying you are guilty.
New Revised Standard
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,
George Lamsa Translation
Because of the hardness and impenitence of your heart you are laying up for yourself a treasure of wrath for the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, according to thy hardness, and thine impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself anger, in a day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But thou after thy stubbernnesse and heart that can not repent, heapest vnto thy selfe wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and declaration of the righteous iudgement of God:
Good News Translation
But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.
Christian Standard Bible®
Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.
King James Version
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;
Lexham English Bible
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Literal Translation
But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up to yourself wrath in a day of wrath, and revelation of a righteous judgment of God?
Young's Literal Translation
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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But thou after thine harde and impenitent hert, heapest vnto thy selfe a treasure of wrath, agaynst the daye of wrath and of the openynge of the righteous iudgment of God,
Mace New Testament (1729)
however by your impenitence, and the insensibility of your heart, you treasure up for yourself wrath against the day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
THE MESSAGE
You're not getting by with anything. Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. The day is coming when it's going to blaze hot and high, God's fiery and righteous judgment. Make no mistake: In the end you get what's coming to you—Real Life for those who work on God's side, but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!
New English Translation
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed!
New King James Version
But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Simplified Cowboy Version
But because you're stubborn as a mule and won't quit doin' things you ought not be doing, you're just piling up judgment on yourself. If you keep it up, God's gonna have to call you to the carpet for 'em.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
Legacy Standard Bible
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Contextual Overview

1Therefore you have no excuse or justification, everyone of you who [hypocritically] judges and condemns others; for in passing judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, because you who judge [from a position of arrogance or self-righteousness] are habitually practicing the very same things [which you denounce]. 2And we know that the judgment of God falls justly and in accordance with truth on those who practice such things. 3But do you think this, O man, when you judge and condemn those who practice such things, and yet do the same yourself, that you will escape God's judgment and elude His verdict? 4Or do you have no regard for the wealth of His kindness and tolerance and patience [in withholding His wrath]? Are you [actually] unaware or ignorant [of the fact] that God's kindness leads you to repentance [that is, to change your inner self, your old way of thinking—seek His purpose for your life]? 5But because of your callous stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are [deliberately] storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.6He WILL PAY BACK TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS [justly, as his deeds deserve]: 7to those who by persistence in doing good seek [unseen but certain heavenly] glory, honor, and immortality, [He will give the gift of] eternal life. 8But for those who are selfishly ambitious and self-seeking and disobedient to the truth but responsive to wickedness, [there will be] wrath and indignation. 9There will be tribulation and anguish [torturing confinement] for every human soul who does [or permits] evil, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, 10but glory and honor and inner peace [will be given] to everyone who habitually does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

But after: Romans 11:25, *marg. Exodus 8:15, Exodus 14:17, Deuteronomy 2:30, Joshua 11:20, 1 Samuel 6:6, 2 Chronicles 30:8, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Psalms 95:8, Proverbs 29:1, Isaiah 48:4, Ezekiel 3:7, Daniel 5:20, Zechariah 7:11, Zechariah 7:12, Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 3:15, Hebrews 4:7

treasurest: Romans 9:22, Deuteronomy 32:34, Amos 3:10, James 5:3

the day: Job 21:30, Proverbs 11:4, 2 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 3:7, Revelation 6:17

revelation: Romans 2:2, Romans 2:3, Romans 1:18, Ecclesiastes 12:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:13 - General Exodus 8:32 - General Exodus 9:27 - the Lord Exodus 9:34 - and hardened Exodus 11:10 - the Lord Exodus 22:24 - my wrath Exodus 23:7 - for I will not Numbers 19:20 - shall not Deuteronomy 29:24 - General Deuteronomy 32:4 - all his Deuteronomy 32:15 - waxen fat Judges 20:25 - destroyed 2 Kings 17:14 - but hardened 2 Kings 22:19 - thine heart 2 Chronicles 28:13 - add more Nehemiah 9:16 - hardened Job 4:17 - Shall mortal Job 8:3 - God Job 21:19 - layeth Job 24:1 - not see Job 24:12 - yet God Job 36:13 - heap Job 36:18 - Because Job 36:23 - Thou Psalms 9:8 - General Psalms 50:6 - heavens Psalms 50:21 - I kept Psalms 51:4 - when Psalms 58:11 - Verily there is Psalms 65:5 - righteousness Psalms 67:4 - for thou Psalms 88:7 - Thy wrath Psalms 96:10 - judge Psalms 98:9 - with righteousness Psalms 110:5 - in the day Psalms 119:137 - General Proverbs 10:2 - Treasures Proverbs 14:2 - but Ecclesiastes 3:17 - God Ecclesiastes 8:11 - sentence Ecclesiastes 8:12 - a sinner Ecclesiastes 11:9 - know Isaiah 3:10 - Say ye Isaiah 5:3 - judge Isaiah 5:16 - the Lord Isaiah 10:22 - with Isaiah 17:11 - a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow Isaiah 26:10 - favour Isaiah 28:17 - Judgment Isaiah 30:1 - add Isaiah 34:8 - General Isaiah 65:2 - after Isaiah 65:20 - but Jeremiah 2:25 - after Jeremiah 5:3 - they have made Jeremiah 7:26 - but Jeremiah 18:23 - in the Jeremiah 34:11 - General Jeremiah 40:3 - because Jeremiah 44:22 - could Lamentations 1:18 - Lord Ezekiel 7:27 - I will Ezekiel 11:19 - I will take Ezekiel 14:23 - that I have not Ezekiel 18:25 - my Ezekiel 18:30 - so Ezekiel 22:3 - that her Ezekiel 24:14 - according to thy ways Ezekiel 30:19 - General Hosea 6:5 - and thy judgments are as Hosea 13:2 - now Hosea 13:12 - General Nahum 1:2 - reserveth Zephaniah 1:15 - is Zephaniah 3:5 - bring Malachi 3:18 - discern Mark 6:11 - in the day Luke 8:6 - General Luke 12:21 - he Luke 13:7 - three Luke 19:23 - Wherefore Luke 21:22 - the days John 5:30 - I judge Acts 17:31 - he hath appointed Romans 2:16 - God Romans 3:5 - Is God Romans 4:15 - Because Romans 9:14 - Is there unrighteousness Romans 11:22 - therefore 1 Corinthians 3:13 - the day 2 Corinthians 5:10 - receive 2 Thessalonians 1:5 - righteous 1 Timothy 1:16 - all 2 Timothy 4:8 - the righteous Hebrews 3:8 - Harden Hebrews 6:2 - eternal Hebrews 9:27 - but 1 Peter 2:23 - judgeth 1 Peter 3:20 - the longsuffering Revelation 2:21 - space Revelation 2:23 - and I will Revelation 16:5 - Thou art Revelation 20:11 - I saw

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is good; bdellium (a fragrant, valuable resin) and the onyx stone are found there.
Genesis 3:23
therefore the LORD God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
And [later] she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept the flocks [of sheep and goats], but Cain cultivated the ground.
Genesis 4:12
"When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast]."
Job 5:10
"He gives rain upon the earth And sends waters upon the fields,
Psalms 104:14
He causes grass to grow for the cattle, And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man, So that he may bring food from the earth—
Psalms 135:7
Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightning for the rain, Who brings the wind from His storehouses;
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the idols of the nations who can send rain? Or can the heavens [of their own will] give showers? Is it not You, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait and hope [confidently] in You, For You are the one who has made all these things [the heavens and the rain].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart,.... The apostle goes on to show, that such persons who promise themselves impunity on the score of prosperity, shall not always go unobserved and unpunished; for there is a day of wrath and righteous judgment hastening on, and will take place after they have filled up the measure of their iniquity. There is a natural "hardness" of the heart in every son and daughter of Adam; and there is an acquired habitual hardness, which is increased by sinning; and a judicial one, which God, for sin, sometimes gives persons up unto. An "impenitent heart" is not only an heart which does not repent, but such an one as cannot repent, being harder than the nether millstone. Now men, by such hardness and impenitence,

treasure up unto [themselves] wrath: they are the authors of their own destruction; by which is meant the wrath of God, in opposition to the riches of his goodness, despised by them; and is in reserve for wicked men: and is laid up

against, and will be brought forth in

the day of wrath; which the Scriptures call "the evil day", Amos 6:3 Ephesians 6:13; the day fixed by God, when he will call men to an account for their sins, and stir up all his wrath against them:

and revelation; that is, the day of revelation, when Christ shall be revealed from heaven in flames of fire, the sins of men shall be revealed, and the wrath of God against them:

of the righteous judgment of God; so some copies read; that is, the day of the righteous judgment; so the Arabic version reads, "and of the appearance of God, and of his righteous judgment"; for the judgment will be at the appearance of Christ, who is God, and at his kingdom, 2 Timothy 4:1. The Alexandrian copy reads, "and of the retribution of the righteous judgment of God"; and so the Ethiopic version seems to have read, rendering the words, "if so", or "seeing thy retribution may come upon thee", and "if the judgment of God may befall thee"; for when the judgment of God shall come, as there will be a revelation of men's sins, and of the wrath of God against them, there will be a just retribution according to their works. Or "the revelation of the righteous judgment of God"; that is, when the judgment of God, which is now hid, shall appear; and which is said to be "righteous", because it will be carried on in a righteous manner, and proceed upon, and be executed according to the strictest rules of justice and equity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But after thy hardness - The word “after” here κατά kata means in respect to, or you act according to the direct tendency of a hard heart in treasuring up wrath. The word “hardness” is used to denote insensibility of mind. It properly means what is insensible to the touch, or on which no impression is made by contact, as a stone, etc. Hence, it is applied to the mind, to denote a state where no motives make an impression; which is insensible to all the appeals made to it; see Matthew 25:24; Matthew 19:8; Acts 19:9. And here it expresses a state of mind where the goodness and forbearance of God have no effect. The man still remains obdurate, to use a word which has precisely the meaning of the Greek in this place. It is implied in this expression that the direct tendency, or the inevitable result, of that state of mind was to treasure up wrath, etc.

Impenitent heart - A heart which is not affected with sorrow for sin, in view of the mercy and goodness of God. This is an explanation of what he meant by hardness.

Treasurest up - To treasure up, or to lay up treasure, commonly denotes a laying by in a place of security of property that may be of use to us at some future period. In this place it is used, however, in a more general sense, to accumulate, to increase. It still has the idea of hoarding up, carries the thought beautifully and impressively onward to future times. Wrath, like wealth treasured up, is not exhausted at present, and hence, the sinner becomes bolder in sin. But it exists, for future use; it is kept in store (compare 2 Peter 3:7) against future times; and the man who commits sin is only increasing this by every act of transgression. The same sentiment is taught in a most solemn manner in Deuteronomy 32:34-35. It may be remarked here, that most people have an immense treasure of this kind in store, which eternal ages of pain will not exhaust or diminish! Stores of wrath are thus reserved for a guilty world, and in due time it “will come upon man to the uttermost,” 1 Thessalonians 2:16.

Unto thyself - For thyself, and not for another; to be exhausted on thee, and not on your fellow-man. This is the case with every sinner, as really and as certainly as though he were the only solitary mortal in existence.

Wrath - Note, Romans 1:18.

Day of wrath - The day when God shall show or execute his wrath against sinners; compare Revelation 6:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; John 3:36; Ephesians 5:6.

And revelation - On the day when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed, or made known. Here we learn:

(1) That the punishment of the wicked will be just. It will not he a judgment of caprice or tyranny, but a righteous judgment, that is, such a judgment as it will be right to render, or as ought to be rendered, and therefore such as God will render, for he will do right; 2 Thessalonians 1:6.

(2) The punishment of the wicked is future. It is not exhausted in this life. It is treasured up for a future day, and that day is a day of wrath. How contrary to this text are the pretences of those who maintain that all punishment is executed in this life.

(3) How foolish as well as wicked is it to lay up such a treasure for the future; to have the only inheritance in the eternal world, an inheritance of wrath and wo!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 2:5. But after thy hardness — Occasioned by thy long course of iniquity. And impenitent heart - produced by thy hardness, through which thou art callous to the calls and expostulations of conscience. Treasurest up - continuest to increase thy debt to the Divine justice, which will infallibly inflict wrath - punishment in the day of wrath - the judgment day, in which he will render to every man according to his works. The word treasure the Hebrew uses to express any kind of store or collection: - Treasure or plenty of rain. Deuteronomy 28:12: The Lord shall open unto thee his good TREASURE, to give the RAIN unto thy land. Treasure of punishment. Deuteronomy 32:34, Deuteronomy 32:35 : Is not this sealed up among my TREASURES? To me belongeth VENGEANCE and RECOMPENSE. Treasures of mines, i.e. abundance of minerals. Deuteronomy 33:19: They shall suck of the ABUNDANCE of the seas, and of TREASURES hid in the sand. So treasures of gold, silver, corn, wine, oil, c., mean collections or an abundance of such things: the word is used by the Greek writers precisely in the same sense. By wrath we are to understand punishment, as in Romans 1:18 and it is used so by the very best Greek writers. See Kypke.

The treasure of wrath, in this verse, is opposed to the riches of goodness, in the preceding. As surely as thou despisest, or neglectest to improve the RICHES of God's GOODNESS, so surely thou shalt share in the TREASURES of his WRATH. The punishment shall be proportioned to the mercy thou hast abused.


 
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