Romans 2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Why do you seek to do well? Is it for glory? Is it for honor? Is it for immortality? Is it for eternal life? Set that aside for just a moment and try not to answer just yet.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

It is difficult to know the motivations of the heart. I know, I have lied so often about my motivations in the past that I don’t even trust myself. I admit it is difficult to seek to do good if you are not motivated. Human nature says why do a thing if nothing good will come of it. Ah, but there’s the rub.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

If you trust God and believe He is true, then His promise is this, good will come even if you do not see it. We are performance based as humans. Effort and dedication produce results. In His Kingdom however, our efforts are overshadowed by His.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Knowing this, how could I rewrite Romans 2:7 to better reflect that ultimate truth.

Romans 2:7 modified To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek God:

Ephesians 1:11-12 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Inheritance?