Romans 2:5–8
The same just judgment gives eternal life to those who persevere in doing good
Study it word by word5But by your hardness and your heart without change of mind you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6who will repay each one according to his works:
7to those who by perseverance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;
8but to those who are of rivalry and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
In its context
3And do you suppose this, O human being, you who judge those who practice such things and do them, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to a change of mind?
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9There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of a human being who does evil, of both the Jew first and the Greek;
10but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to both the Jew first and the Greek.
Its words in the original
- σκληρότητάsklērotēta· hardness, stubbornness
Hardness: stubbornness of heart.
- ἀμετανόητονametanoēton· without change of mind
Without change of mind: refusing to turn from one's evil way.
- καρδίανkardian· heart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
- θησαυρίζειςthēsaurizeis· store up
Store up, lay up treasure, keep.
- σεαυτῷseautōi· yourself
Yourself.
- ὀργὴνorgēn· wrath, anger
Anger, wrath; said of God, his judgment against evil.
- ἡμέρᾳhēmerai· day
Day. "In the days of" someone: in their time.
- ἀποκαλύψεωςapokalypseōs· revelation
Revelation: an uncovering, making known what was hidden.
- δικαιοκρισίαςdikaiokrisias· righteous judgment
Righteous judgment: God's just verdict.
- θεοῦtheou· God, god
God. In the plural or in another sense, "gods".
- ἀποδώσειapodōsei· give back, pay
Pay, give back, give what is owed.
- ἑκάστῳhekastōi· each
Each, each one.
- ἔργαerga· work
Work, deed, what someone does.
- ὑπομονὴνhypomonēn· endurance, perseverance
Endurance, perseverance: holding out patiently under trial.
- ἀγαθοῦagathou· good
Good.
- δόξανdoxan· glory
Glory: splendor, honor, the weight of God's presence.
- τιμὴνtimēn· honor, price
Price; also honor.
- ἀφθαρσίανaphtharsian· incorruption, immortality
Incorruption: what neither decays nor dies, immortality.
- ζητοῦσινzētousin· seek
Look for, seek; try to.
- ζωὴνzōēn· life
Life; the true life that God gives.
- αἰώνιονaiōnion· eternal
Eternal: belonging to God's age and without end.
- ἐριθείαςeritheias· selfish ambition
Selfish ambition, rivalry: seeking one's own interest or that of one's party.
- ἀπειθοῦσιapeithousi· disobey
Disobey, refuse to be persuaded.
- ἀληθείᾳalētheiai· truth
Truth.
- πειθομένοιςpeithomenois· persuade, trust
To persuade, convince; to trust.
- ἀδικίᾳadikiai· unrighteousness
Injustice, unrighteousness.
- θυμόςthymos· wrath, rage
Rage, wrath: anger that bursts out.