[Romans 2]

 

             ^2:1 Hence O man, everyone who judges, you are without defense; for^* in what you are judging the other, you are condemning yourself, for^* you who judge are practicing the same things. ^2:2 Now we know that the judgment of God is according-to truth upon the ones practicing such things. ^2:3 Now O man, he who is judging the ones practicing such things and you are doing^* the same things, are you reasoning this thing: you will be fleeing away from the judgment of God? {i.e., judging another will not make you clean.} ^2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? ^2:5 But you are storing up wrath for yourself according-to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and of revelation and of the righteous judgment of God, ^2:6 who will ‘repay to each according-to his works,’ {Pro 24:12b, Psa 62:12} ^2:7 everlasting life to the ones who indeed by endurance of good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption. ^2:8 But to the ones who are out-of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey the unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath, ^2:9 affliction and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ^2:10 But glory and honor and peace to everyone who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, ^2:11 for^* there is no favoritism with God.

             ^2:12 For^* as many as sinned without the law will also perish without the law. And as many as sinned in the law will be judged through the law. ^2:13 For^* the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous. ^2:14 For^* whenever the Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, ^2:15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together-with their hearts, and between one another, their reasonings are accusing or even defending them, ^2:16 in the day when God will be judging the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according-to my proclaimed good-news.

 

             ^2:17 Behold, you who are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God, ^2:18 and know God’s will and approve the things which are carrying more-value, being instructed out-of the law, ^2:19 and have confidence in yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of the ones in darkness, ^2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

               ^2:21 Therefore, the one teaching a different one, are you not teaching yourself? The one preaching not to steal, are you stealing? ^2:22 The one saying to not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? The one detesting idols, are you a temple looter? ^2:23 You who are boasting in the law, through your transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God? ^2:24 ‘For^* the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you^°,’ just-as it has been written. ^2:25 For^* circumcision indeed profits, if you should practice the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. {Isa 52:5}

               ^2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision are observing the ordinances of the law, will his uncircumcision not be counted toward circumcision? ^2:27 And the man from the natural uncircumcision who is completing the law, will be judging you, who are a transgressor of the law through the writing {Or: ‘scripture’ meaning ‘scriptures’ also in 2:29, 7:6.} and circumcision. ^2:28 For^* the one is not a Jew openly; nor is circumcision the one openly in the flesh, ^2:29 but the one is a Jew in the secret thing, and the circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.