2:1 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things!
2:2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon the ones practicing such things.
2:3 But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance?
2:5 But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God,
2:6 Who will render to each one according to his works—
2:7 to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life;
2:8 but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest, there will be wrath and fury.
2:9 There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek.
2:10 But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek.
2:12 For all who sinned without-Law will also perish without-Law, and all who sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.
2:13 For not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared-righteous.
2:14 For whenever Gentiles, the ones not having the Law, are doing by nature the things of the Law, these ones not having the Law are a law to themselves,
2:15 who are demonstrating the work of the Law written in their hearts— their conscience bearing co-witness and their thoughts accusing or even defending between one another
2:16 on the day when God judges the hidden things of people according to my good-news, through Christ Jesus.
2:17 But if you call-yourself a Jew, and rely upon the Law, and boast in God,
2:18 and know His will, and approve the things mattering— being instructed out of the Law—
2:19 and are confident as to yourself that you are a guide of blind ones, a light of the ones in darkness,
2:20 a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of children, one having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the Law,
2:21 then— the one teaching another, are you not teaching yourself ? The one proclaiming not to steal, do you steal?
2:22 The one saying not to commit-adultery, do you commit-adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob-temples?
2:23 You who are boasting in the Law are dishonoring God through transgression of the Law.
2:24 For “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you”, just as it has been written [in Isa 52:5].
2:25 For circumcision profits if you practice the Law— but if you are a transgressor of the Law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26 So if the uncircumcised one keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
2:27 And the uncircumcised one by nature who is fulfilling the Law will judge you, the transgressor of the Law with the letter and circumcision!
2:28 For the Jew in the visible thing is not a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the visible thing in the flesh circumcision,
2:29 but the Jew in the hidden thing is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit not the letter— whose praise is not from people, but from God.
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