2:1   Therefore, you have no excuse-every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, practice the very same things.

2:2   Now we know that God's judgment against those who practice such is based on truth.

2:3   So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

2:4   Or do you think so little of the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that it is God's kindness that is leading you to repentance?

2:5   But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

2:6   For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:

2:7   eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good;

2:8   but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead.

2:9   There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

2:10   But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

2:11   For God does not show partiality.

2:12   For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

2:13   For it is not merely those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who do the law, who will be justified.

2:14   For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

2:15   They show that what the law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

2:16   on that day when God, through Jesus Christ, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel.

2:17   Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast about God,

2:18   and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the law;

2:19   and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

2:20   an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the law-

2:21   as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal?

2:22   As you forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? As you abhor idols, do you rob temples?

2:23   As you boast about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

2:24   As it is written, "God's name is being blasphemed among the gentiles because of you."

2:25   For circumcision is valuable if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

2:26   So if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the law, his uncircumcision will be regarded as circumcision, won't it?

2:27   The man who is uncircumcised physically but who keeps the law will condemn you who break the law, even though you have the written law and circumcision.

2:28   For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something external and physical.

2:29   No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people.