Session 4.5: December 19, 2025

Study session scripture: Romans 2:1-11

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 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? 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. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.

Study session topics:

• The unrighteousness of the Jews

• None of us has room to judge the unrighteousness of another

• This does not mean we must be silent in the face of sin, but that we must point to God’s judgment rather than our own

• We will all stand before God as righteous judge

• God’s current leniency is not an excuse to keep living as you do, but an opportunity to heed His call to repentance

• God will judge us all according to our works

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