Romans - Chapter 2

Passage

Therefore art inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge. For in which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things which you judge. For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. And do you think this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Do you not know that the benignity of God leads you to penance? But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: Who will render to every man according to his works. To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that works evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. But glory and honor and peace to every one that works good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For there is no respect of persons with God. For whoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified. For 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. Who show 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, In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. But if you are called a Jew and restest in the law and make your boast of God, And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law: Art confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. You therefore, that teach another, teach not yourself: you, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. You, that say men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: you, that abhor idols, committest sacrilege: You, that make your boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) Circumcision profits indeed, if you keep the law: but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. But 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.