Chapter 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 practise the same things .
2 We know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those who practise such things .
3 Do you think this , O man who judges those who practise such things , and do the same , that you will escape the judgement of God ?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness , forbearance, and patience , not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance ?
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 judgement of God ,
6 who " will pay back to everyone according to their works :"
7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory , honour , and incorruptibility, eternal life ;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and don’ t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath , indignation ,
9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil , to the Jew first , and also to the Greek .
10 But glory , honour , and peace go to every man who does good , to the Jew first , and also to the Greek .
11 For there is no partiality with God .
12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law . As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law .
13 For it isn’ t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God , but the doers of the law will be justified
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 ,
15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts , their conscience testifying with them , and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them )
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men , according to my Good News , by Jesus Christ .
17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew , rest on the law , glory in God ,
18 know his will , and approve the things that are excellent , being instructed out of the law ,
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind , a light to those who are in darkness ,
20 a corrector of the foolish , a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
21 You therefore who teach another , don’ t you teach yourself ? You who preach that a man shouldn’ t steal , do you steal ?
22 You who say a man shouldn’ t commit adultery , do you commit adultery ? You who abhor idols , do you rob temples ?
23 You who glory in the law , do you dishonour God by disobeying the law ?
24 For " the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you ," just as it is written .
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.
26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law , won’ t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision ?
27 Won’ t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfil the law , judge you , who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law ?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly , neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh ;
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 .