| 2:1: Therefore 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. |
| 2:2: We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. |
| 2:3: Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? |
| 2:4: Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? |
| 2:5: But 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; |
| 2:6: who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" |
| 2:7: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life; |
| 2:8: but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, |
| 2:9: oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek. |
| 2:10: But glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. |
| 2:11: For there is no partiality with God. |
| 2:12: For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. |
| 2:13: For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified |
| 2:14: (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, |
| 2:15: in 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) |
| 2:16: in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ. |
| 2:17: Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, |
| 2:18: and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, |
| 2:19: and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
| 2:20: a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. |
| 2:21: You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? |
| 2:22: You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
| 2:23: You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God? |
| 2:24: For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written. |
| 2:25: For 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. |
| 2:26: If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? |
| 2:27: Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills 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 outward in the flesh; |
| 2:29: but 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. |
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