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

Romans 6:1

Matthew 24:48

2 Peter 3:3

Riches

Forbearance

General references

Luke 8:6

Bible References

Despisest

What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

Riches

And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, because the same Lord Jesus is all over, and is rich unto all who call upon Him;

Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

It is in him we have deliverance, the forgiveness of our trespasses, through his blood;

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

To me, who am less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, that I should proclaim among the Gentiles the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ;

All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus.

To them God willed to make known among the Gentiles how glorious are the riches of that secret truth, which is "Christ in you, the hope of glory."

May their hearts be comforted! May they be knit together in love! May they gain in all its riches the full assurance of their understanding! May they come to a perfect knowledge of the secret truth of God, which is Christ himself.

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,

Forbearance

For God openly set him forth for himself as an offering of atonement through faith, by means of his blood, in order to show forth his righteousness??ince in his forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed??o show forth his righteousness,

But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

who in old times had been disobedient, when God's longsuffering was waiting in the days of Noah, while an ark was building, in which a few persons??ight in number??ere saved by water.)

General references

"Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.