Romans 2
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God’s Righteous Judgment
1Therefore, any one of you # 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. 2We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. 3Do you really 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 # Or patience, because you do not recognize that God’s kindness # 2Pt 3:9 is intended to lead you to repentance? 5But because of your hardness 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: # Ps 62:12; Pr 24:12, Mt 16:27 # Ps 62:12; Pr 24:12 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 indignation 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 but are obeying unrighteousness; 9affliction 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. 11There is no favoritism with God. # Dt 10:17; Ac 10:34
12All those who sinned without the law # 1Co 9:21 will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under 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 declared righteous. # Or will be justified or acquitted 14So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively # Ac 10:35; Rm 1:19 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 # The code of conduct required by the law is written on their hearts. # Rm 2:27 Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them # 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 # Other mss read Look — you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, # Mc 3:11; Jn 5:45; Rm 9:4 boast in God, 18know 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 full expression # Or 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 their 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? 24For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. # Is 52:5; Ezk 36:20-23; 2Pt 2:2 # Is 52:5
Circumcision of the Heart
25For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. # Jr 4:4; 9:25 26Therefore if an uncircumcised # Rm 3:30; 1Co 7:19; Eph 2:11 man keeps the law’s requirements, # Rm 8:4 will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision? 27A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills 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. # Or heart — spiritually, not literally # Rm 7:6; 2Co 3:6 That man’s praise # In Hb, the words Jew, Judah, and praise are related. is not from men but from God. # Jn 5:44; 12:43; 1Co 4:5; 2Co 10:18
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Romans 2
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Romans 2
1¶ Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for in that which thou dost judge another, thou dost condemn thyself; for thou that judgest others doest the same things.
2For we are sure that the judgment of God is according to the truth against those who do such things.
3And dost thou think this, O man, that judgest those who do such things and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, ignoring that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6who will render to everyone according to his deeds:
7to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;
8but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
9Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every human soul that does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek;
10but glory, honour, and peace to everyone that works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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, who do not have the law, do by nature that which is of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves;
15which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, accusing and also excusing their reasonings one with another)
16in the day when God shall judge that which men have covered up, according to my gospel by Jesus, the Christ.
17¶ Behold, thou doth call thyself a Jew and art supported by the law and doth glory in God
18and dost know his will and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,
19and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
20an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of children, who hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21Thou, therefore, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that dost abhor idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, with rebellion to the law doth thou dishonour God?
24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25For circumcision verily profits if thou keep the law, but if thou art a rebel to the law, thy circumcision is made into a foreskin.
26Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his foreskin be counted for circumcision?
27And that which is by nature foreskin, but keeps the law perfectly, shall judge thee who with the letter and with the circumcision art rebellious to the law.
28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is done outwardly in the flesh;
29but he is a Jew who 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.
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