Aug. 21
Romans 2
Rom 2:1 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.
Rom 2:2 We know that
the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice
such things.
Rom 2:3 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?
Rom 2:4 Or do you
despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not
knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Rom 2:5 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;
Rom 2:6 who "will
pay back to everyone according to their works:"
Rom 2:7 to those who by
patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility,
eternal life;
Rom 2:8 but to those
who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
Rom 2:9 oppression and
anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
Rom 2:10 But glory,
honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first,
and also to the Greek.
Rom 2:11 For there is
no partiality with God.
Rom 2:12 For as many as
have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as
have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom 2:13 For it isn't
the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of
the law will be justified
Rom 2:14 (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,
Rom 2:15 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)
Rom 2:16 in the day
when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by
Jesus Christ.
Rom 2:17 Indeed you
bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
Rom 2:18 and know his
will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out
of the law,
Rom 2:19 and are
confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to
those who are in darkness,
Rom 2:20 a corrector of
the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of
knowledge and of the truth.
Rom 2:21 You therefore
who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a
man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
Rom 2:22 You who say a
man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor
idols, do you rob temples?
Rom 2:23 You who glory
in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
Rom 2:24 For "the
name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,"
just as it is written.
Rom 2:25 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.
Rom 2:26 If therefore
the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his
uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Rom 2:27 Won't the
uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you,
who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
Rom 2:28 For he is not
a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is
outward in the flesh;
Rom 2:29 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.