Forbearance Leads To Repentance - Not Permission, Rom Series 2:4-5

As Paul finishes Chapter 1 and begins Chapter 2, he tells the Jews, that God's judgments are according to truth.  If we are guilty of the very same sin we condemn in others and not worried about the wrath and judgement of God upon us for the same sin, then we must think very little of the longsuffering God is showing us.  This time of allowance (not permission) is to lead us to repentance, not self-deception.