Romans 2:8
New International Version
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

New Living Translation
But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and instead live lives of wickedness.

English Standard Version
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Berean Standard Bible
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

Berean Literal Bible
but to those of self-interest and disobeying the truth, but being persuaded about unrighteousness, wrath and anger;

King James Bible
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

New King James Version
but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

New American Standard Bible
but to those who are self-serving and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation.

NASB 1995
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

NASB 1977
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

Legacy Standard Bible
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

Amplified Bible
But for those who are selfishly ambitious and self-seeking and disobedient to the truth but responsive to wickedness, [there will be] wrath and indignation.

Christian Standard Bible
but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;

American Standard Version
but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But those who resist and do not obey the truth, but obey evil, he will pay anger and fury,

Contemporary English Version
But he will show how angry and furious he can be with every selfish person who rejects the truth and wants to do evil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

English Revised Version
but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.

Good News Translation
Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury.

International Standard Version
but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.

Literal Standard Version
and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

Majority Standard Bible
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be anger and wrath.

New American Bible
but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.

NET Bible
but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

New Revised Standard Version
while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

New Heart English Bible
But to those who are self-seeking, and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness -- wrath and anger,

Webster's Bible Translation
But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:

Weymouth New Testament
while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,

World English Bible
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Young's Literal Translation
and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

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Context
God's Righteous Judgment
7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. 8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. 9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:23
then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Proverbs 11:23
The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

Jeremiah 34:18
And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

Ezekiel 22:31
So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20
idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Philippians 1:17
The former, however, preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can add to the distress of my chains.


Treasury of Scripture

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

contentious.

Proverbs 13:10
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

1 Timothy 6:3,4
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; …

and do not.

Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Romans 6:17
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

Romans 10:16
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

but obey.

John 3:18-21
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God…

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved…

Hebrews 3:12,13
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God…

indignation.

Romans 9:22
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

Psalm 90:11
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

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Romans 2
1. No excuse for sin.
6. No escape from judgment.
14. Gentiles cannot;
17. nor Jews.














(8) But unto them . . .--The scholar will observe that in the original Greek the construction is changed. At the end of Romans 2:7 is an accusative "(he will render) eternal life;" here we have the nominative, "(there shall be) tribulation and anguish."

That are contentious.--An error in the Authorised version through a wrong derivation of the word. Strictly, To those who act in the spirit of a hireling; hence, according to the secondary meaning of the word, "to those who act in a spirit of factiousness and self-seeking." It is, however, quite possible that the mistaken derivation may have been current in St. Paul's time, as it was, no doubt, somewhat later, from Origen downwards. St. Paul, it is true, distinguishes between the proper word for "contention" and that used here (e.g., in 2Corinthians 12:20; Galatians 5:20), but this would not exclude, it would rather seem to imply, not indeed a formal derivation, but some association of ideas. The shade of meaning will, perhaps, be expressed if we translate by some such word as "factiousness." So in Philippians 1:16 (properly Philippians 1:17, the order of the clauses being reversed), "the one (the other) preach Christ of factiousness." . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

for those who
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

[are] self-seeking
ἐριθείας (eritheias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 2052: Perhaps as the same as erethizo; properly, intrigue, i.e. faction.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

who reject
ἀπειθοῦσι (apeithousi)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 544: To disobey, rebel, be disloyal, refuse conformity. From apeithes; to disbelieve.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

truth
ἀληθείᾳ (alētheia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 225: From alethes; truth.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

follow
πειθομένοις (peithomenois)
Verb - Present Participle Passive - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3982: A primary verb; to convince; by analogy, to pacify or conciliate; reflexively or passively, to assent, to rely.

wickedness,
ἀδικίᾳ (adikia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 93: Injustice, unrighteousness, hurt. From adikos; injustice; morally, wrongfulness.

[there will be] wrath
ὀργὴ (orgē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3709: From oregomai; properly, desire, i.e., violent passion (justifiable) abhorrence); by implication punishment.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

anger.
θυμός (thymos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2372: An outburst of passion, wrath. From thuo; passion.


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