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2:1  Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.
2:2  We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.
2:3  Do you really think--anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same--that you will escape God's judgment?
2:4  Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
2:5  But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed.
2:6  He will repay each one according to his works:
2:7  eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;
2:8  but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;
2:9  affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;
2:10  but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
2:11  There is no favoritism with God.
2:12  All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
2:13  For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.
2:14  So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
2:15  They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them
2:16  on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
2:17  Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,
2:18  know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,
2:19  and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,
2:20  an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law--
2:21  you then, who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach, "You must not steal"--do you steal?
2:22  You who say, "You must not commit adultery"--do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?
2:23  You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
2:24  For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
2:25  For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26  Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law's requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?
2:27  A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.
2:28  For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.
2:29  On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart--by the Spirit, not the letter. That man's praise is not from men but from God.