Romans 2:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Despisest

2 Peter 3:3

Riches

Forbearance

General references

Jeremiah 34:11

Luke 8:6

Bible References

Despisest

What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, in order to do all these abominations!

Son of man, what is that proverb which ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days shall be prolonged, and every vision faileth?

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

knowing this first, that there shall come at the close of the days mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts,

Riches

and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory,

For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all is rich towards all that call upon him.

O depth of riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his judgments, and untraceable his ways!

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

How manifold are thy works, O Jehovah! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

But my God shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

to whom God would make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you the hope of glory:

to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared,

Forbearance

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

And if God, minded to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction;

And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in goodness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

But thou, Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.

And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he lift himself up, that he may have mercy upon you; for Jehovah is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed upon us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel which he hath bestowed upon them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Ah, Jehovah, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was minded to flee at first unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

General references

But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.

and other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it was dried up because it had not moisture;