Romans 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.
You are therefore without excuse, O man, whoever you are who sit in judgement upon others. For when you pass judgement on your fellow man, you condemn yourself; for you who sit in judgement upon others are guilty of the same misdeeds;
2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
and we know that God's judgement against those who commit such sins is in accordance with the truth.
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?
And you who pronounce judgement upon those who do such things although your own conduct is the same as theirs--do you imagine that you yourself will escape unpunished when God judges?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God is gently drawing you to repentance?
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,
The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements will stand revealed.
6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions;
7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, consummate (aiōnios g166) life;
to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages; (aiōnios g166)
8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress,
9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile;
10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then to the Gentile.
11 For there is no partiality with God.
For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.
12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned whilst living 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 will be justified
It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous.
14 (for when Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they, without having a 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)
since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts, while their consciences also bear witness to the Law, and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them or perhaps maintain their innocence--
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.
17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction in the Law, and make your boast in God,
18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--being a man who receives instruction from the Law--
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide to 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.
a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young, because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge and an outline of the truth:
21 You therefore who teach another, do not you teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
you then who teach your fellow man, do you refuse to teach yourself? You who cry out against stealing, are you yourself a thief?
22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples?
23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
You who make your boast in the Law, do you offend against its commands and so dishonour God?
24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentile nations because of you, as Holy Writ declares.
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.
Circumcision does indeed profit, if you obey the Law; but if you are a Law-breaker, the fact that you have been circumcised counts for nothing.
26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
In the same way if an uncircumcised man pays attention to the just requirements of the Law, shall not his lack of circumcision be overlooked, and,
27 Will not those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?
although he is a Gentile by birth, if he scrupulously obeys the Law, shall he not sit in judgement upon you who, possessing, as you do, a written Law and circumcision, are yet a Law-breaker?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
For the true Jew is not the man who is simply a Jew outwardly, and true circumcision is not that which is outward and bodily.
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.
But the true Jew is one inwardly, and true circumcision is heart-circumcision--not literal, but spiritual; and such people receive praise not from men, but from God.
