Romans 2:5
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;
Study Note
Study Note
Paul warns of those who, through their 'hardness and impenitent heart,' 'treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.' The metaphor of 'treasuring up wrath' inverts the normal saving impulse: every act of impenitence compounds a mounting account that the day of judgment will call due. The passage establishes that divine judgment will be impartial (verse 11) and according to works (verse 6), grounding Paul's argument about universal culpability before the grace announcement of Romans 3-5. Ecclesiastes 12:14 ('God shall bring every work into judgment') and 2 Corinthians 5:10 develop the same accountability structure.
Other Translations
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;
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,
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;
Cross References
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully …
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And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and …
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: