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.

You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things.

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

"We know that God’s judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

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?

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment 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?

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading 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 judgment of God,

In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

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

For He will render to every man according to his works;

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

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; (aiōnios g166)

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

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

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

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practises evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

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 honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

11 For there is no partiality with God.

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.

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under 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 law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

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 Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no 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)

For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

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 judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

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

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

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

and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are 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,

and are confident that you yourself are a 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 young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

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 are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

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

You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

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

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of 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 continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

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.

Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is 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 ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to 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 shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

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

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not 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 the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart- circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.