Anderson - Romans - 2

2:1  For which reason, you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are, that judge; for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge, practice the same things.

2:2  But we know that the judgment of God against those who practice such things, is according to truth.

2:3  But do you, O man, who judge those that practice such things, and yet do the same, conclude that you will escape the judgment of God?

2:4  Or, do you despise the riches of his goodness, and his forbearance, and his long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

2:5  But, according to your hard and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath for a day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

2:6  who will render to every man according to his works;

2:7  to those who, by patient continuance in good works, seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life:

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

2:9  affliction and distress, upon every soul of man that practices what is evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek:

2:10  but glory and honor and peace to every one that practices what is good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

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

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

2:13  in the day when God shall judge the secret works of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

2:14  For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

2:15  For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

2:16  who show that the work which the law requires, is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing testimony, and their reasonings with each other accusing, or making excuse.

2:17  But if you are named Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast in God.

2:18  and know his will, and approve what is excellent, being instructed by the law:

2:19  if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

2:20  an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

2:21  you, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

2:22  You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

2:23  You who make your boast in the law, do you, by transgressing the law, dishonor God?

2:24  For the name of God is reviled among the Gentiles, on account of you, as it is written.

2:25  Now, circumcision is indeed profitable, if you keep the law: but, if you transgress the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

2:26  If, then, he who is uncircumcised keeps the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

2:27  And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the law?

2:28  For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward 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 of men, but of God.