Romans 2 — WEBU
2Verse 1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.Verse 2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.Verse 3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?Verse 4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?Verse 5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,Verse 6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”Verse 7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;Verse 8but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,Verse 9oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.Verse 10But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.Verse 11For there is no partiality with God.Verse 12For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.Verse 13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justifiedVerse 14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,Verse 15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)Verse 16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.Verse 17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,Verse 18know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,Verse 19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,Verse 20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.Verse 21You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?Verse 22You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Verse 23You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?Verse 24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.Verse 25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Verse 26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?Verse 27Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?Verse 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;Verse 29but 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.