2:1 | *Therefore* you are without excuse,* whoever you are,* when you judge someone else.* For on whatever grounds* you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things. |
2:2 | Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth* against those who practice such things. |
2:3 | And do you think,* whoever you are, when you judge* those who practice such things and yet do them yourself,* that you will escape God’s judgment? |
2:4 | Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know* that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? |
2:5 | But because of your stubbornness* and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!* |
2:6 | He* will reward* each one according to his works:* |
2:7 | eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, |
2:8 | but* wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition* and do not obey the truth but follow* unrighteousness. |
2:9 | There will be* affliction and distress on everyone* who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,* |
2:10 | but* glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek. |
2:11 | For there is no partiality with God. |
2:12 | For all who have sinned apart from the law* will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. |
2:13 | For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous.* |
2:14 | For whenever the Gentiles,* who do not have the law, do by nature* the things required by the law,* these who do not have the law are a law to themselves. |
2:15 | They* show that the work of the law is written* in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend* them,* |
2:16 | on the day when God will judge* the secrets of human hearts,* according to my gospel* through Christ Jesus. |
2:17 | But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law* and boast of your relationship to God* |
2:18 | and know his will* and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,* |
2:19 | and if you are convinced* that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
2:20 | an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth – |
2:21 | therefore* you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? |
2:22 | You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor* idols, do you rob temples? |
2:23 | You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law! |
2:24 | For just as it is written, “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”* |
2:25 | For circumcision* has its value if you practice the law, but* if you break the law,* your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
2:26 | Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys* the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? |
2:27 | And will not the physically uncircumcised man* who keeps the law judge you who, despite* the written code* and circumcision, transgress the law? |
2:28 | For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh, |
2:29 | but someone is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart* by the Spirit* and not by the written code.* This person’s* praise is not from people but from God. |