[1] Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge
another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because
you, the judge, are doing the very same things. [2] We know that the
judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things. [3] Do you
suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do
them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? [4] Or do you presume
upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not
know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? [5] But by
your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the
day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. [6] For he
will render to every man according to his works: [7] to those who by
patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will
give eternal life; [8] but for those who are factious and do not obey the
truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. [9] There will be
tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first
and also the Greek, [10] but glory and honor and peace for every one who
does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. [11] For God shows no
partiality. [12] All who have sinned without the law will also perish
without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by
the law. [13] For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before
God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. [14] When Gentiles who
have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to
themselves, even though they do not have the law. [15] They show that what
the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also
bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them
[16] on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of
men by Christ Jesus. [17] But if you call yourself a Jew and rely upon the
law and boast of your relation to God [18] and know his will and approve
what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law, [19] and if you
are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in
darkness, [20] a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in
the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-- [21] you then who teach
others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do
you steal? [22] You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you
commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? [23] You who
boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? [24] For, as it
is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of
you." [25] Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you
break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. [26] So, if a man
who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his
uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? [27] Then those who are
physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you who have the
written code and circumcision but break the law. [28] For he is not a real
Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and
physical. [29] He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a
matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal. His praise is not from men
but from God.
