[1] Therefore you are without excuse, man, whoever you are who judge. For
in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge
practice the same things. [2] We know that the judgment of God is according
to truth against those who practice such things. [3] Do you know this, O
man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you
will escape the judgment of God? [4] Or do you despise the riches of his
goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God
leads you to repentance? [5] But according to your hardness and impenitent
heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God; [6] who "will render to every
man according to his works:" [7] to those who by patience in well-doing
seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life; [8] but to
those who are self-seeking, and don`t obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, [9] oppression and anguish,
on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the
Greek. [10] But glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to
the Jew first, and also to the Greek. [11] For there is no partiality with
God. [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.
[13] For it isn`t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but
the doers of the law will be justified [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, [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) [16] in the day when God
will judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
[17] Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in
God, [18] and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent,
being instructed out of the law, [19] and are confident that you yourself
are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, [20] a
corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form
of knowledge and of the truth. [21] You therefore who teach another, don`t
you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn`t steal, do you
steal? [22] You who say a man shouldn`t commit adultery, do you commit
adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? [23] You who glory in
the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God? [24] For
"the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as
it is written. [25] For circumcision indeed profits, if you be a doer of
the law, but if you be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has
become uncircumcision. [26] If therefore the uncircumcised keep the
ordinances of the law, won`t his uncircumcision be accounted as
circumcision? [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? [28] For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly,
neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; [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.
