2Verse 1Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.Verse 2Further, we know that God's judgment against those who practice such things+is according to truth.Verse 3So then, you there, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God's judgment?+Verse 4Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance?+Verse 5Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God's wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,+Verse 6who will repay each one according to his works:+Verse 7to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life;+Verse 8but to those who, due to self-seeking,+are actually disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,Verse 9tribulation and anguish, upon every human soul who works at the evil,+whether Jew (first) or Greek;Verse 10but glory, honor and peace to everyone who works the good, whether Jew (first) or Greek.+Verse 11Now there is no favoritism with God.Verse 12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by law.+Verse 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified+Verse 14(indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves;Verse 15who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,+and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing)Verse 16in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people's secrets by Jesus Christ.+
Law
Verse 17Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,Verse 18and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law.Verse 19Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,Verse 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.+Verse 21You then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?Verse 22You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Verse 23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?Verse 24For, just as it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”+
Circumcision
Verse 25Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Verse 26So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?Verse 27And will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who are a transgressor of the Law?Verse 28Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something outward in the flesh;Verse 29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God.+