Some of us have been exploring Romans in Bible Study Fellowship. The first part of this letter explains that all have sinned and are under the penalty of eternal death. However, God has also offered to all salvation through the death and resurrection of Christ.

Read Romans 2:4-11 slowly and prayerfully.

4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance 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.
6 He will render to each one according to his works:
7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
11 For God shows no partiality. (ESV)

1. Why is God kind and patient towards us (verse 4)?

2. What happens if we harden our hearts (verse 5)?

3. What is the contrast between the patient and the self-seeking (verses 6-8)?

4. What is the contrast between evil doers and good doers (verses 9-11)?

5. What one phrase from this passage will you think about throughout today?