Romans 2:7
Specifically, some people, by continuing to doing good things, strive to be highly honored by God [DOU] and to receive a life that will not end. God will reward them by enabling them to live forever.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
6God will pay back everyone according to what they deserve for what they have done.
Cross References
Job 17:9Those who claim that they are righteous will continue to do what they think is right, and those who say they have not sinned will continue to become stronger.
Psalms 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do what is good; if you do that, you will live safely in the land that he has given you, and you will live peacefully [MET].
Lamentations 3:25Yahweh is good to all those who depend on him, to those who seek his help.
Luke 8:15But some people are like the good soil. They hear God’s message and accept it. They become good, honest people, and they continue doing things that please God [MET].”
John 6:66From that time, many of his disciples left him and no longer went with him.
Romans 6:23What people receive for sinning is that they are eternally separated from God. That is like wages that people receive [MET]. But what God gives us is a gift. What he gives us is that we live eternally because of our relationship with (OR, because we are united to) Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:2-17
Equity of the Divine Government. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and… Read the whole commentary →