Romans 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.

So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

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

And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

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?

But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

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,

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

Who will give to every man his right reward:

7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; (aiōnios g166)

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: (aiōnios g166)

8 but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

11 For there is no partiality with God.

For one man is not different from another before 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.

All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment 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

For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

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,

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they 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 among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

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

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

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

For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

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.

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

27 Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen 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.

But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.