2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges another; for in that in which you judge the other, you are condemning your own self; for you who judge another are doing the same things. |
2:2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who commit such things. |
2:3 Now do you think yourself, O man, whoever is judging those who commit such things, and you are practicing them yourself, that you shall escape the judgment of God? |
2:4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the graciousness of God leads you to repentance? |
2:5 But you, according to your own hardness and unrepentant heart, are storing up wrath for yourself against the day of wrath and revelation of God's righteous judgment, |
2:6 Who will render to each one according to his own works: |
2:7 On the one hand, to those who with patient endurance in good works are seeking glory and honor and immortality— eternal life; |
2:8 On the other hand, to those who are contentious and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, |
2:9 Tribulation and anguish—upon every soul of man who works out evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek; |
2:10 But glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek, |
2:11 Because there is no respect of persons with God. |
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned within the law shall be judged by the law, |
2:13 (Because the hearers of the law are not just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. |
2:14 For when the Gentiles, which do not have the law, practice by nature the things contained in the law, these who do not have the law are a law unto themselves; |
2:15 Who show the work of the law written in their own hearts, their consciences bearing witness, and their reasonings also, as they accuse or defend one another;) |
2:16 In a day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. |
2:17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and you yourself rest in the law, and boast in God, |
2:18 And know His will, and approve of the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; |
2:19 And are persuaded that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light for those in darkness, |
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth contained in the law. |
2:21 You, then, who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself also? You who preach, “Do not steal,” are you stealing? |
2:22 You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” are you committing adultery? You who abhor idols, are you committing sacrilege? |
2:23 You who boast in law, are you dishonoring God through your transgression of the law? |
2:24 For through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, exactly as it is written. |
2:25 For on the one hand, circumcision profits if you are observing the law; on the other hand, if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcised is keeping the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? |
2:27 And shall not the uncircumcised, who by nature is fulfilling the law, judge you, who, with the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? |
2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is external in the flesh; |
2:29 Rather, he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. |