Romains 2
1 C’est pourquoi, ô homme, qui que tu sois, tu es inexcusable de juger. Car, en jugeant autrui, tu te condamnes toi-même, puisque tu fais ce que tu condamnes.
You are therefore without excuse, O man, whoever you are who sit in judgement upon others. For when you pass judgement on your fellow man, you condemn yourself; for you who sit in judgement upon others are guilty of the same misdeeds;
2 Nous savons, en effet, que Dieu juge selon la vérité ceux qui font ces choses.
and we know that God's judgement against those who commit such sins is in accordance with the truth.
3 Penses-tu donc, ô homme, qui juges ceux qui font ces choses, et qui les fais toi-même, que tu échapperas au jugement de Dieu?
And you who pronounce judgement upon those who do such things although your own conduct is the same as theirs--do you imagine that you yourself will escape unpunished when God judges?
4 Est-ce que tu méprises les richesses de sa bonté, de sa patience et de sa longanimité? Ignores-tu que la bonté de Dieu t’invite à la pénitence?
Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God is gently drawing you to repentance?
5 Cependant, par ta dureté et ton cœur impénitent, tu t’amasses un trésor de colère pour le jour de la colère et de la manifestation du juste jugement de Dieu,
The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements will stand revealed.
6 Qui rendra à chacun selon ses œuvres:
To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;
7 À ceux qui, par la persévérance dans les bonnes œuvres, cherchent la gloire, l’honneur et l’immortalité, la vie éternelle; (aiōnios g166)
to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages; (aiōnios g166)
8 Mais à ceux qui ont l’esprit de contention, qui ne se rendent pas à la vérité, mais qui acquiescent à l’iniquité, ce sera la colère et l’indignation.
while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,
9 Tribulation et angoisse à Pâme de tout homme qui fait le mal, du Juif d’abord, et puis du Grec;
coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile;
10 Mais, gloire, honneur et paix à quiconque fait le bien, au Juif d’abord, et ensuite au Grec;
whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then to the Gentile.
11 Car Dieu ne fait point acception des personnes.
For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.
12 Ainsi, quiconque a péché sans la loi, périra sans la loi, et quiconque a péché sous la loi sera jugé par la loi;
For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned whilst living under the Law, will be judged by the Law.
13 [Car ce ne sont pas ceux qui écoutent la loi qui sont justes devant Dieu; mais ce sont les observateurs de la loi qui seront justifiés.
It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous.
14 En effet, lorsque les gentils, qui n’ont pas la loi, font naturellement ce qui est selon la loi; n’ayant pas la loi, ils sont à eux-mêmes la loi:
For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law, are a Law to themselves;
15 Montrant ainsi l’œuvre de la loi écrite en leurs cœurs, leur conscience leur rendant témoignage, et leurs pensées s’accusant et se défendant l’une l’autre, ]
since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--
16 Au jour où Dieu jugera par Jésus-Christ, selon mon Evangile, ce qu’il y a de caché dans les hommes.
on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.
17 Mais toi, qui portes le nom de Juif, qui te reposes sur la loi, et te glorifies en Dieu,
And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,
18 Qui connais sa volonté, et qui, instruit par la loi, sais discerner ce qui est le plus utile,
and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--
19 Tu te flattes d’être le guide des aveugles, la lumière de ceux qui sont dans les ténèbres,
and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 Le docteur des ignorants, le maître des enfants, ayant la règle de la science et de la vérité dans la loi.
a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:
21 Toi donc qui instruis les autres, tu ne t’instruis pas toi-même; toi qui prêches de ne point dérober, tu dérobes;
you then who teach your fellow man, do you refuse to teach yourself? You who cry out against stealing, are you yourself a thief?
22 Toi qui dis qu’il ne faut pas être adultère, tu es adultère; toi qui as en horreur les idoles, tu commets le sacrilège;
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples?
23 Toi qui te glorifies dans la loi, tu déshonores Dieu par la violation de la loi.
You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?
24 (Car, à cause de vous, le nom de Dieu est blasphémé parmi les nations, ainsi qu’il est écrit.)
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.
25 À la vérité, la circoncision est utile, si tu observes la loi; mais, si tu la violes, ta circoncision devient incirconcision.
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing.
26 Si donc l’incirconcis garde les préceptes de la loi, son incirconcision ne lui sera-t-elle pas imputée à circoncision?
In the same way if an uncircumcised man pays attention to the just requirements of the Law, shall not his lack of circumcision be overlooked, and,
27 Bien plus, celui qui, étant naturellement incirconcis, accomplit la loi, te condamnera, toi qui, avec la lettre et la circoncision, es prévaricateur de la loi.
although he is a Gentile by birth, if he scrupulously obeys the Law, shall he not sit in judgement upon you who, possessing, as you do, a written Law and circumcision, are yet a Law-breaker?
28 Car le Juif n’est pas celui qui le paraît au dehors; ni la circoncision, celle qui se voit à l’extérieur sur la chair;
For the true Jew is not the man who is simply a Jew outwardly, and true circumcision is not that which is outward and bodily.
29 Mais le Juif est celui qui l’est intérieurement, et la circoncision est celle du cœur, faite en esprit et non selon la lettre; et ce Juif tire sa louange non des hommes, mais de Dieu.
But the true Jew is one inwardly, and true circumcision is heart-circumcision--not literal, but spiritual; and such people receive praise not from men, but from God.
