2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge someone else, for in that which you judge · another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge are practicing the same things.
2:2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth with respect to those who practice · such things.
2:3 Do you suppose, · this, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice · such things yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you hold in contempt the riches of his kindness and · forbearance and · patience, not knowing that · God’s kindness · is meant to lead you to repentance?
2:5 But because of · your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed, ·
2:6 who will give to each person according to what he has done:
2:7 to those who by patiently doing good works seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
2:8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey · unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does · evil, for the Jew first and also for the Greek,
2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does · good, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
2:12 for all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law;
2:13 for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before · God, but the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
2:14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves.
2:15 They show that the work of the law is written on · their hearts, their conscience bearing witness · and their conflicting · thoughts accusing or else defending them,
2:16 on the day when God judges · the secrets of everyone according to · my gospel through Christ Jesus.
2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God,
2:18 and know his will, and approve the things that excel because you are instructed by the law,
2:19 and are convinced that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light for those who are in darkness,
2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of little children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and of truth—
2:21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
2:22 You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor · idols, do you rob temples?
2:23 You who boast in the law, by your breaking of the law you dishonor · God!
2:24 For as it is written, “On account of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles.”
2:25 For to be sure, circumcision is of value if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, · your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not · his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
2:27 And will not the one who by nature is uncircumcised yet fulfills the law judge you who have the written code and circumcision yet are a transgressor of the law?
2:28 For that person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, · nor is · circumcision that which is outward · in the flesh.
2:29 But a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, · and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit and not by the written code. That person’s · praise comes not from man but from · God.
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