Romans 2 : King James Version
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2 1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever
thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to
truth against them which commit such things. 3And
thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things,
and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee
to repentance? 5But after thy hardness and impenitent
heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6Who will
render to every man according to his deeds: 7To them who
by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and
immortality, eternal life: 8But unto them that are
contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath, 9Tribulation and anguish, upon
every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the
Gentile; 10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man
that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
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, which have not the law, do by nature the things
contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto
themselves: 15Which shew the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their
thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel. 17Behold, thou art called
a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, 18And
knowest his will, and approvest 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 them which are in
darkness, 20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21Thou therefore which 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 abhorrest idols, dost
thou commit sacrilege? 23Thou that makest thy boast of
the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24For
the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it
is written. 25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou
keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision
is made uncircumcision. 26Therefore if the uncircumcision
keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be
counted for circumcision? 27And shall not uncircumcision
which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the
letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? 28For he
is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision,
which is outward in the flesh: 29But he is a Jew, which
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.