Unrepentant
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G279 describes what is unrepentant or refusing to turn. Its one direct New Testament occurrence is Romans 2:5, where Paul addresses the hard and unrepentant heart that presumes on God's kindness while storing up wrath.
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G279 describes what is unrepentant or refusing to turn. Its one direct New Testament occurrence is Romans 2:5, where Paul addresses the hard and unrepentant heart that presumes on God's kindness while storing up wrath.
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include unrepentant (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Romans 2:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Romans (1).
G279 describes what is unrepentant or refusing to turn. Its one direct New Testament occurrence is Romans 2:5, where Paul addresses the hard and unrepentant heart that presumes on God's kindness while storing up wrath. Romans 2:4 and 2:6 are immediate context, not additional occurrences: God's kindness is meant to lead to repentance, and his judgment is righteous.
The word therefore names settled refusal under received patience, not every delayed, painful, or incomplete process of repentance. It calls morally confident hearers to self-examination while protecting tender believers who grieve sin and are turning toward God. Its rarity increases the need for precision; it does not reduce its pastoral force.
G279 is anchored in Romans 2:5 and names the hard heart that misuses divine kindness.
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
God's kindness is meant to lead to repentance, framing the warning.
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
The target word describes the hard and unrepentant heart storing up wrath.
God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
The following verse grounds the warning in God's righteous judgment.
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Greek word. unrepentant
(μετανοέω)
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
unrepentant
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
ἀμετανόητος is built from these roots:
Teach G279 from the movement of Romans 2:4-6. God's kindness is not indifference to sin; it is mercy that summons a person to turn. The adjective occurs directly in verse 5 and describes a heart that receives patience yet remains hardened and unrepentant. Paul places that warning inside an argument against judging others while practicing the same things, so its first pastoral use is self-examination rather than labeling someone else.
A grieving believer who confesses sin should not be treated as though struggle itself proves settled refusal. At the same time, religious knowledge, delayed consequences, or public respectability must not be mistaken for repentance. The passage holds kindness and judgment together: grace leads toward turning, and persistent refusal remains answerable to God's righteous judgment.
Rom.2.4
The adjective describes what is unrepentant or impenitent. Its New Testament use is concentrated in Romans 2:5.
Prophetic calls to turn from sin stand behind Paul's warning that patience is not permission.
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