Romans 2:1-29
2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man,+ whoever you are, if you judge;+ for in the thing in which you judge another, you condemn yourself, inasmuch as you that judge+ practice the same things.+
2 Now we know that the judgment of God is, in accord with truth,+ against those who practice such things.
3 But do you have this idea, O man,+ while you judge those who practice such things and yet you do them, that you will escape the judgment of God?+
4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness+ and forbearance+ and long-suffering,+ because you do not know that the kindly [quality] of God is trying to lead you to repentance?*+
5 But according to your hardness+ and unrepentant heart+ you are storing up wrath+ for yourself on the day of wrath+ and of the revealing+ of God’s righteous judgment.+
6 And he will render to each one according to his works:+
7 everlasting life to those who are seeking glory and honor and incorruptibleness+ by endurance in work that is good;
8 however, for those who are contentious+ and who disobey the truth+ but obey unrighteousness there will be wrath and anger,+
9 tribulation and distress, upon the soul of every man who works what is injurious, of the Jew+ first and also of the Greek;+
10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who works what is good,+ for the Jew first+ and also for the Greek.+
11 For there is no partiality with God.+
12 For instance, all those who sinned without law will also perish without law;+ but all those who sinned under law+ will be judged by law.+
13 For the hearers of law are not the ones righteous before God, but the doers+ of law will be declared righteous.+
14 For whenever people of the nations+ that do not have law+ do by nature the things of the law,+ these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves.
15 They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts,+ while their conscience+ is bearing witness with them and, between their own thoughts, they are being accused+ or even excused.
16 This will be in the day when God through Christ Jesus judges+ the secret+ things of mankind,+ according to the good news I declare.+
17 If, now, you are a Jew in name+ and are resting upon law+ and taking pride in God,+
18 and you know his will+ and approve of things that are excellent* because you are orally instructed out of the Law;+
19 and you are persuaded that you are a guide of the blind,+ a light for those in darkness,+
20 a corrector of the unreasonable ones,+ a teacher of babes,+ and having the framework*+ of the knowledge and of the truth+ in the Law—
21 do you, however, the one teaching someone else, not teach yourself?+ You, the one preaching “Do not steal,”+ do you steal?+
22 You, the one saying “Do not commit adultery,”*+ do you commit adultery? You, the one expressing abhorrence of the idols, do you rob+ temples?
23 You, who take pride in law, do you by your transgressing of the Law+ dishonor God?
24 For “the name of God is being blasphemed on account of YOU people among the nations”;+ just as it is written.
25 Circumcision+ is, in fact, of benefit only if you practice law;+ but if you are a transgressor of law, your circumcision+ has become uncircumcision.+
26 If, therefore, an uncircumcised+ person keeps the righteous requirements+ of the Law, his uncircumcision will be counted as circumcision, will it not?+
27 And the uncircumcised [person] that is such by nature will, by carrying out the Law, judge you+ who with its written code and circumcision are a transgressor of law.
28 For he is not a Jew who is one on the outside,+ nor is circumcision that which is on the outside upon the flesh.+
29 But he is a Jew who is one on the inside,+ and [his] circumcision is that of the heart+ by spirit, and not by a written code.+ The praise+ of that one comes, not from men, but from God.+
Footnotes
^ Lit., “change of mind.”
^ Or, “and test the things that differ.”
^ Lit., “form.” Gr., morʹpho·sin.
