Romans Chapter 2 Back Next{2:1} Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who
judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
{2:2} We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
{2:3} Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
{2:4} Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the
goodness of God leads you to repentance?
{2:5} But according to your hardness and unrepentant
heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
{2:6} who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" [
Ref]
{2:7} to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility,
eternal life;
{2:8} but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
{2:9} oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the
Jew first, and also to the
Greek.
{2:10} But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
{2:11} For there is no partiality with God.
{2:12} For as many as have sinned without
law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
{2:13} For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
{2:14} (for when
Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
{2:15} in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
{2:16} in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by
Jesus Christ.
{2:17} Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
{2:18} and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
{2:19} and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the
blind, a light to those who are in
darkness,
{2:20} a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
{2:21} You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
{2:22} You who say a man shouldn't commit
adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor
idols, do you rob temples?
{2:23} You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
{2:24} For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,"[
Ref] just as it is written.
{2:25} For
circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
{2:26} If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
{2:27} Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the
letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
{2:28} For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the
flesh;
{2:29} but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
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