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

Now what are we to infer from this? That we are to 'remain on in sin, so that there may be all the more grace'?

But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'

To begin with, you know that mockers will come with their mockeries in the last days, men who go by their own passions,

Riches

What if he means to show the wealth that lies in his glory for the objects of his mercy, whom he has made ready beforehand to receive glory ??24 that is, for us whom he has called from among the Gentiles as well as the Jews?

What a fathomless wealth lies in the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable his judgments! How mysterious his methods!

in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

less than the least of all saints as I am, this grace was vouchsafed me, that I should bring the Gentiles the gospel of the fathomless wealth of Christ

My God will supply all your own needs from his wealth in Glory in Christ Jesus.

It is His will that they should understand the glorious wealth which this secret holds for the Gentiles, in the fact of Christ's presence among you as your hope of glory.

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;

But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared;

Forbearance

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

What if God, though desirous to display his anger and show his might, has tolerated most patiently the objects of his anger, ripe and ready to be destroyed?

I obtained mercy, for the purpose of furnishing Christ Jesus with the chief illustration of his utter patience; I was to be the typical instance of all who were to believe in him and gain eternal life.

who had disobeyed at the time when God's patience held out during the construction of the ark in the days of Noah ??the ark by which only a few souls, eight in all, were brought safely through the water.)

General references

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;