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.

Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.

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

Further, we know that God's judgment against those who practice such things is according to truth.

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?

So then, you there, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God's judgment?

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 do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward 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 judgment of God,

Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God's wrath and revelation and righteous judgment,

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

who will repay each one according to his works:

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

to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—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, due to self-seeking, are actually disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,

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

tribulation and anguish, upon every human soul who works at the evil, whether Jew (first) or 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, honor and peace to everyone who works the good, whether Jew (first) or Greek.

11 For there is no partiality with God.

Now there is no favoritism 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.

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by 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 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,

(indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having 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 among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing)

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, according to my Gospel, will judge people's secrets by Jesus Christ.

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

Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,

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

and know the Will, and approve the superior things, 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,

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

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

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.

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

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

You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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

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

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

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

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.

Now circumcision does have value if you keep 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?

So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted 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 will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who 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;

Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something 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.

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