Romans 2

1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges. For in passing judgment on another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the same things.

2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3But do you suppose this, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?

5But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of God’s righteous judgment,

6who will repay each one according to his works.

7eternal life to those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory and honor and immortality.

8But for those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness: wrath and fury.

9There will be affliction and distress upon every human soul that does evil, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

10but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

11For there is no partiality with God.

12For all who sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sinned under the law will be judged through the law.

13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

14For whenever Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.

15They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their thoughts accuse or even defend them.

16on the day when God judges the secrets of people through Messiah Jesus, according to my gospel.

17But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God,

18and know his will and approve the things that differ, being instructed from the law,

19And you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

21You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who proclaim, “Do not steal,” do you steal?

22You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

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

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

25Circumcision indeed is beneficial if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26So then, if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27And the uncircumcised person by nature, if he fulfills the law, will judge you who, with the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law.

28For a Jew is not one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward in the flesh;

29But the Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—by the Spirit, not by the letter—whose praise is not from people but from God.