Romans

God’s Righteous Judgment

1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

2And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

3So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?

4Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.

8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.

11For God does not show favoritism.

12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

15So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them

16on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus,as proclaimed by my gospel.

The Jews and the Law

17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

18if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

19if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?

24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

27The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

29No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

1Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man — every one who is judging — for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,

2and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

3And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

4or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? — not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

6who shall render to each according to his works;

7to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility — life age-during;

8and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness — indignation and wrath,

9tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

10and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

11For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

12for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

13for not the hearers of the law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

14For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law — to themselves are a law;

15who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

17Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

18and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

19and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

20an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

21Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

22thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

23thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

24for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

25For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

26If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

27and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, [art] a transgressor of law.

28For he is not a Jew who is [so] outwardly, neither [is] circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

29but a Jew [is] he who is [so] inwardly, and circumcision [is] of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.