Romans 2

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges; for in that very thing in which you judge the other, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

²Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

³But do you suppose this, O man who judges — you who practice such things and also do them yourself — that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵But in accordance with your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶who will render to each one according to his works:

⁷to those who by patient endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruptibility — eternal life;

⁸but to those who are of self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness — wrath and fury.

⁹tribulation and distress upon every soul of man who works evil, of Jew first and also of Greek;

¹⁰but glory and honor and peace to every one who works the good, to Jew first and also to Greek;

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹²For as many as sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as sinned in the law will be judged through the law;

¹³For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

¹⁴For whenever Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves,

¹⁵They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts between one another accusing or also defending them —

¹⁶on the day when God will judge the hidden things of men, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus.

¹⁷But if you bear the name of Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,

¹⁸and you know the will, and you discern the things that differ, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and of truth —

²¹you then who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

²²you who say 'do not commit adultery' — do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols — do you rob temples?

²³You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through transgression of the law?

²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it has been written.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁶If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision?

²⁷And will not the one who is physically uncircumcised yet fulfills the law judge you who, with the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

²⁸For not the one who is a Jew in the outward is a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the outward in the flesh circumcision;

²⁹but the one who is inwardly a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter — whose praise is not from men but from God.