Romans 2

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1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of

4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee

5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and

6Who will render to

7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,

8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey

9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of

10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to

11For there is no respect of persons with God.

12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto

15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the

16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest

18And knowest his will, and approvest the things

19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them

20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?

22Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit

23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law

24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the

27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the

28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is

29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.