Romans 2 - Complete Apostles' Bible

¹ Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, everyone who judges, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself, for you who judge are practicing the same things.

² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those practicing such things.

³ But do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things yet doing them, that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵ But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶ who will recompense to each one according to his works:

⁷ to those who by the endurance of good works are seeking glory and honor and incorruption--eternal life.

⁸ But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

⁹ ~ tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

¹⁰ but glory, honor, and peace to everyone that works good, both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

¹⁴ for whenever Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves,

¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience witnessing with them, and among themselves their thoughts accuse or even defend them),

¹⁶ in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and boast in God,

¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹ and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹ You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

²² You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

²³ You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

²⁴ For "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you," just as it is written.

²⁵ For indeed circumcision profits if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁶ Therefore, if a Gentile keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written code and circumcision, a transgressor of the law?

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

²⁹ but he is a Jew that is one inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.