2:1 | Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. |
2:2 | But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. |
2:3 | And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? |
2:4 | Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? |
2:5 | But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, |
2:6 | who "will render to each one according to his deeds": |
2:7 | eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; |
2:8 | but to those who are selfseeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousnessindignation and wrath, |
2:9 | tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; |
2:10 | but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is 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 law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law |
2:13 | (for not the hearers of the law [are] just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; |
2:14 | for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, |
2:15 | who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves [their] thoughts accusing or else excusing [them]) |
2:16 | in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. |
2:17 | Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast 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 to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
2:20 | an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. |
2:21 | You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? |
2:22 | You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
2:23 | You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? |
2:24 | For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written. |
2:25 | For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
2:26 | Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? |
2:27 | And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, [even] with [your] written [code] and circumcision, [are] a transgressor of the law? |
2:28 | For he is not a Jew who [is one] outwardly, nor [is] circumcision that 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. |