4 Or do you and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 2:4, 5
… presuming on the riches of his kindness and forbearance
What was being presumed? God had been patient and kind, so they presumed—wrongly—that this meant God wasn’t really angry, that they hadn’t been such awful people after all.
But verse 5 makes it crystal clear: They are not getting off easy because they “weren’t so bad.” They are storing up wrath.
The King James Bible uses a word that is more intense than the idea of storing up wrath. It uses the words, “treasurest up unto thyself wrath.” They are hoarding it like treasure!
This is what failure to show remorse will do. It will store up he wrath of God.
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