Worsley - Romans - 2

2:1  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost the same things.

2:2  But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those that do such things.

2:3  And thinkest thou, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgement of God?

2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

2:5  But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement of God,

2:6  who will render to every one according to his works:

2:7  to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life:

2:8  but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.

2:9  Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that worketh evil, both of the Jew, and of the Gentile:

2:10  but glory, and honor, and peace to every one that worketh good, both to the Jew, and to the Greek:

2:11  for there is no respect of persons with God.

2:12  For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

2:13  (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

2:14  for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

2:15  and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,)

2:16  in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

2:17  Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

2:18  and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

2:19  and art persuaded that thou art a guide of the blind,

2:20  a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law.

2:21  Thou then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou, that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22  Thou, that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou, that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

2:23  Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

2:24  for through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.

2:25  For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

2:26  Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision?

2:27  and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance;

2:28  nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh;

2:29  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.