Romans 2
2
God’s Righteous Judgment
1Therefore, every one of you#2:1 Lit Therefore, O man, every one#Lk 12:14; Rm 9:20 who judges is without excuse.#Rm 1:20 For when you judge another,#2Sm 12:5–7; Mt 7:1; Rm 14:22 you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. 2Now we know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. 3Do you think — anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same — that you will escape God’s judgment? 4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness,#Rm 11:22 restraint,#Rm 3:25 and patience,#Ex 34:6; Rm 9:22; 1Tm 1:16; 1Pt 3:20; 2Pt 3:15 not recognizing#2:4 Or patience, because you do not recognize that God’s kindness#2Pt 3:9 is intended to lead you to repentance? 5Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath#Dt 32:34; Pr 1:18 for yourself in the day of wrath,#Ps 110:5; 2Co 5:10; 2Th 1:5; Jd 6 when God’s righteous judgment is revealed. 6He will repay each one according to his works:#2:6Ps 62:12; Pr 24:12#Ps 62:12; Pr 24:12; Mt 16:27 7eternal life#1Co 15:42,50,53 to those who by persistence in doing good#Lk 8:15; Heb 10:36 seek glory, honor,#Heb 2:7; 1Pt 1:7 and immortality;#Mt 25:46 8but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking#2Co 12:20; Gl 5:20; Php 2:3; Jms 3:14,16 and disobey the truth#2Th 2:12 while obeying unrighteousness. 9There will be affliction and distress#Rm 8:35 for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;#Ac 3:26; Rm 1:16; 1Pt 4:17 10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. 11For there is no favoritism with God.#Dt 10:17; Ac 10:34
12For all who sin without the law#1Co 9:21 will also perish without the law, and all who sin under#2:12 Lit in the law will be judged by the law. 13For the hearers of the law#Mt 7:21,24; Jn 13:17; Jms 1:22 are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.#2:13 Or acquitted 14So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law,#Ac 10:35; Rm 1:19 do#2:14 Or 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. 15They show that the work of the law#2:15 The code of conduct required by the law is written on their hearts.#Rm 2:27 Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts either accuse or even excuse them#2:15 Internal debate, either in a person or among the pagan moralists 16on the day when God judges#Ac 10:42; 17:31; Rm 3:6; 14:10 what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.#Rm 16:25; 1Co 15:1; Gl 1:11; 1Tm 1:11; 2Tm 2:8
Jewish Violation of the Law
17Now if#2:17 Other mss read Look — you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law,#Mc 3:11; Jn 5:45; Rm 9:4 and boast in God, 18and know his will, and approve the things that are superior,#Php 1:10 being instructed from the law, 19and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth#Is 2:1–4; 42:6–7; 49:6 in the law — 21you then, who teach another,#Mt 23:3–7 don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal” — do you steal? 22You who say, “You must not commit adultery” — do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?#Ac 19:37 23You who boast in the law,#Mc 3:11; Jn 5:45; Rm 9:4 do you dishonor God by breaking the law?#2:23 Or you dishonor God by breaking the law. 24For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.#2:24Is 52:5#Is 52:5; Ezk 36:20–23; 2Pt 2:2
Circumcision of the Heart
25Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.#Jr 4:4; 9:25 26So if an uncircumcised#Rm 3:30; 1Co 7:19; Eph 2:11 man keeps the law’s requirements,#Rm 8:4 will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who keeps the law, will judge you#Mt 12:41 who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision. 28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly,#Jn 8:39; Rm 9:6; Gl 6:15 and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh. 29On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly,#Php 3:3; Col 2:11 and circumcision is of the heart — by the Spirit, not the letter.#2:29 Or heart — spiritually, not literally#Rm 7:6; 2Co 3:6 That person’s praise is not from people but from God.#Jn 5:44; 12:43; 1Co 4:5; 2Co 10:18
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Romans 2
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1WHEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.
2For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.
3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.
6Who will render to every man according to his works.
7To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
8But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
9Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
10But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
11For there is no respect of persons with God.
12For whosoever have sinned without the law, shall perish without the law; and whosoever have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.
13For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves:
15Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one another,
16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
17But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,
19Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
21Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:
22Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:
23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.
24(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)
25Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
28For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:
29But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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