CHAPTER 2
You
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.
So when
you,
O
man,
pass judgment on
others,
yet
do
the same things,
do you think
you
will escape
God’s
judgment?
Or
do you disregard
the
riches
of
His
kindness,
tolerance,
and
patience,
not realizing
that
God’s
kindness
leads
you
to
repentance?
But
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.
To those who
by
perseverance
in doing
good
seek
glory,
honor,
and
immortality,
He will give eternal
life.
But
for those who
are self-seeking
and
who reject
the
truth
and
follow
wickedness,
there will be wrath
and
anger.
There will be trouble
and
distress
for
every
human
being
who
does
evil,
first
for the Jew,
then
for the Greek;
All 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.
For 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.
Indeed,
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,
since 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.
This will come to pass on
that
day
when
God
will judge
men’s
secrets
through
Christ
Jesus,
as proclaimed by
my
gospel.
an instructor
of the foolish,
a teacher
of infants,
because you have
in
the
Law
the
embodiment
of knowledge
and
truth—
you, then,
who
teach
others,
do you not teach
yourself?
You who
preach
against
stealing,
do you steal?
Circumcision
has value
if
you observe
the Law,
but
if
you
break
the Law,
your
circumcision
has become
uncircumcision.
If
a man who is not circumcised
keeps
the
requirements
of the
Law,
will not
his
uncircumcision
be regarded
as
circumcision?
The 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.
No,
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.