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1 Therefore you are
without excuse, O
man, whoever you
are who judge.
For in that
which you judge
another, you
condemn yourself.
For you who
judge practice the
same things.
2 We
know that the
judgment of God
is according
to truth against
those who practice
such things.
3 Do
you think this,
O man who
judges those who
practice such
things, and do
the same, that
you will escape
the judgment of
God?
4 Or
do you despise
the riches of
his goodness, forbearance,
and patience,
not knowing that
the goodness of
God leads you
to repentance?
5 But
according to your
hardness and unrepentant
heart you
are treasuring up
for yourself wrath
in the day
of wrath, revelation,
and of the
righteous judgment
of God,
6 who “will
pay back to everyone
according to their
works:”
7 to
those who by
perseverance in well-doing
seek for glory,
honor, and incorruptibility, eternal
life;
8 but
to those who
are self-seeking and don’t
obey the truth,
but obey unrighteousness,
will be wrath,
indignation,
9 oppression,
and anguish on
every soul of
man who does
evil, to the
Jew first, and
also to the
Greek.
10 But
glory, honor, and
peace go to
every man who
does good, to
the Jew first,
and also to
the Greek.
11 For
there is no
partiality with
God.
12 For
as many as
have sinned without
the law will
also perish without
the law. As
many as have sinned
under the law
will be judged
by the law.
13 For
it isn’t
the hearers of the
law who are
righteous before
God, but the
doers of the
law will be
justified
14 (for
when Gentiles
who don’t have
the law do
by nature the
things of the
law, these, not
having the law,
are a law
to themselves,
15 in
that they show
the work of
the law written
in their hearts,
their conscience testifying
with them, and
their thoughts
among themselves
accusing or
else excusing them)
16 in
the day when
God will judge
the secrets of
men, according to
my Good News,
by Jesus Christ.
17 Indeed
you bear the
name of a
Jew, rest on
the law, glory
in God,
18 know
his will, and
approve the things
that are excellent,
being instructed
out of the
law,
19 and
are confident that
you yourself are
a guide of
the blind, a
light to those
who are in
darkness,
20 a
corrector of the
foolish, a teacher
of babies, having
in the law
the form of
knowledge and of
the truth.
21 You
therefore who
teach another, don’t
you teach yourself?
You who preach
that a
man shouldn’t
steal, do you
steal?
22 You
who say a
man shouldn’t
commit adultery,
do you commit
adultery? You
who abhor idols,
do you rob
temples?
23 You
who glory in
the law, do
you dishonor God
by disobeying the
law?
24 For “the
name of God
is blasphemed among
the Gentiles
because of you,”
just as it
is written.
25 For
circumcision indeed
profits, if you
are a doer of
the law, but
if you are
a transgressor of
the law, your
circumcision has
become uncircumcision.
26 If
therefore the uncircumcised
keep the
ordinances of the
law, won’t
his uncircumcision be
accounted as
circumcision?
27 Won’t
those who are
physically uncircumcised,
but fulfill the
law, judge you,
who with the
letter and
circumcision are a
transgressor of
the law?
28 For
he is not
a Jew who
is one outwardly,
neither is that
circumcision which
is outward in
the flesh;
29 but
he is a
Jew who is
one inwardly, and
circumcision is
that of the
heart, in the
spirit, not in
the letter; whose
praise is not
from men, but
from God.