Romans 2:7

To those who persevere in doing good, seeking glory and honor, God gives eternal life. A life of persevering good is the mark of those who will be saved.

Cross-references · 29

• 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 2 Tim 1:10But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
• 1 Pet 1:7–8That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
• Rev 2:10–11Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• Heb 10:35–36Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Cor 4:16–18For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Jas 5:7–8Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
• Gal 6:9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
• Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
• Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
• 1 Cor 15:53–54For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
• Matt 24:12–13And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
• Rom 8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
• Rom 2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
• Col 1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Ps 37:34Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
• Rom 8:24–25For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• Rom 9:23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
• John 6:66–69From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
• John 5:44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
• Heb 6:15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• 1 Pet 4:13–14But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
• Heb 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

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