Romans 2:5

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But you people are hard and stubborn. You refuse to change. So you are making your own punishment greater and greater. You will get that punishment on the day when God will show his anger. On that day people will see God’s right judgments.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:8

Don’t be stubborn like your ancestors {\cf2\super [364]} were. But obey the Lord with a willing heart. Come to the Most Holy Place. {\cf2\super [365]} The Lord has made the Most Holy Place to be holy forever. Serve the Lord your God. Then the Lord’s fearful anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

Zedekiah turned against King Nebuchadnezzar. In the past Nebuchadnezzar forced Zedekiah to make a promise to be faithful to Nebuchadnezzar. Zedekiah used God’s name and promised to be faithful to Nebuchadnezzar. But Zedekiah was very stubborn and refused to change his life and come back and obey the Lord God of Israel.

Job 21:30

Evil people are spared\par when disaster comes.\par They survive when God shows his anger.\par

Psalm 110:5

My Master is at your right side.\par He will defeat the other kings when he becomes angry.\par

Psalm 95:8

God says,\par “Don’t be stubborn,\par like you were at Meribah, {\cf2\super [526]} \par like you were at Massah {\cf2\super [527]} in the desert.\par

Exodus 14:17

I have made the Egyptians brave, so they will chase you. But I will show you that I am more powerful than Pharaoh and all of his horses and chariots.

Exodus 32:34

So now, go down and lead the people where I tell you. My angel will go before you and lead you. When the time comes to punish the people who sinned, then they will be punished.”

Exodus 8:15

Pharaoh saw that they were free of the frogs, and he again became stubborn. Pharaoh did not do what Moses and Aaron had asked him to do. This happened just like the Lord had said.

Proverbs 1:18

So those bad people hide themselves and wait to kill someone. But really, they will be destroyed by their own trap!

Proverbs 11:4

On the day God judges people, money is worth nothing. But goodness will save people from death.

Proverbs 28:14

If a person always respects the Lord, then that person will be blessed. But if a person is stubborn and refuses to respect the Lord, then he will have trouble.

Proverbs 29:1

If a person is stubborn and becomes more angry every time people tell him that he is doing wrong, then that person will be destroyed. There is no hope.

Isaiah 48:4

I did that because I knew\par you were stubborn.\par \{You refused to believe anything I said\}.\par You were very stubborn—\par like iron \{that does not bend\}\par and as hard as bronze.\par

Jeremiah 40:3

And now the Lord has done everything just as he said he would do. This disaster happened because you people of Judah sinned against the Lord. You people didn’t obey the Lord.

Ezekiel 11:19

I will bring them together and make them like one person. I will put a new spirit {\cf2\super [98]} in them. I will take away that heart of stone, and I will put a real heart in its place.

Ezekiel 3:7

No! I am sending you to the family of Israel. Only, these people have hard heads—they are very stubborn! And the people of Israel will refuse to listen to you. They don’t want to listen to me!

Daniel 5:20

But Nebuchadnezzar became proud and stubborn. So his power was taken away from him. He was taken off his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

Hosea 13:12

“Ephraim tried to hide his guilt.\par He thought his sins were a secret.\par \{But he will be punished.\}\par

Romans 1:18

God shows his anger from heaven against all the evil and wrong things that people do. They have the truth, but by their evil lives they hide it.

Romans 11:25

I want you to understand this secret truth, brothers and sisters. This truth will help you understand that you don’t know everything. The truth is this: Part of Israel {\cf2\super [124]} has been made stubborn. But that will change when enough non-Jews have come to God.

Romans 9:22

It is the same way with what God has done. God wanted to show his anger and to let people see his power. But God endured patiently those people he was angry with—people that were ready to be destroyed.

2 Corinthians 5:10

We must all stand before Christ to be judged. Each person will get what he should. Each person will be paid for the things he did—good or bad—when he lived in the earthly body.

Deuteronomy 2:30

“But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him very stubborn. The Lord did this so he could let you defeat King Sihon. And today, we know that really happened!

Deuteronomy 32:34

“{The Lord says,} ‘I am saving that punishment. I have it locked up in my storehouse!

2 Thessalonians 1:5

That is proof that God is right in his judgment. God wants you to be worthy of his kingdom. Your suffering is for that kingdom.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today. {\cf2\super [19]} ” Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and the way sin fools people.

Hebrews 3:15

This is what that Scripture {\cf2\super [20]} said:

Hebrews 4:7

So God planned another special day. It is called “today.” God spoke about that day through David a long time later. It is the same Scripture {\cf2\super [30]} we used before:

James 5:3

Your gold and silver will rust, and that rust will be a proof that you were wrong. That rust will eat your bodies like fire. You saved your treasure in the last days.

Joshua 11:20

The Lord wanted those people to think they were strong. Then they would fight against Israel. This way he could destroy them without mercy. He could destroy them the way the Lord had commanded Moses to do.

2 Peter 2:9

\{Yes, God did all these things.\} So the Lord \{God\} will always save the people who serve him. He will save them when troubles come. And the Lord will hold evil people and punish them while waiting for the day of judgment.

2 Peter 3:7

And that same word \{of God\} is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. The skies and the earth are being kept to be destroyed by fire. The skies and the earth are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to change her heart and turn away from her sin. But she does not want to change.

Revelation 6:17

The great day for their anger has come. No person can stand against it.”

1 Samuel 6:6

Don’t be stubborn like Pharaoh and the Egyptians. God punished the Egyptians. That is why the Egyptians let the Israelites leave Egypt.