2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. |
2:2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. |
2:3 But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? |
2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? |
2:5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you have stored up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, |
2:6 who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: |
2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; |
2:8 but to those who act selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. |
2:9 There will come tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, |
2:10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
2:11 11For God does not show partiality. |
2:12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will receive judgment by the Law; |
2:13 for God does not justify the hearers of the Law, but justifies the doers of the Law . |
2:14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, act lawfully by themselves, |
2:15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, |
2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. |
2:17 But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law and boast in God, |
2:18 and know His will and approve the essential things , receiving instructions out of the Law, |
2:19 and have confidence that you yourself can guide the blind, a light to those who dwell in darkness, |
2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, |
2:21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? |
2:22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
2:23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? |
2:24 For " THE NAME OF GOD HAS BECOME BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as the scriptures read. |
2:25 For indeed circumcision has value if you practice the Law; but if you transgress the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
2:26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision become equivalent to circumcision? |
2:27 And he who has not undergone physical uncircumcision, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision a transgressor of the Law? |
2:28 For he cannot claim Jewishness who has the outward characteristics, nor does outward fleshly circumcision qualify him. |
2:29 But he can call himself a Jew who behaves lawfully inwardly; and has received circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise does not come from men, but from God. |