Paul's Letter to the Romans, Chapter 2
{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:"[1] {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,"[2]
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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Footnotes:
[1] {2:6} Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12
[2] {2:24} Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22
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