CPDV - Romans - 2

2:1  For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.

2:2  For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things.

2:3  But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

2:4  Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?

2:5  But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.

2:6  For he will render to each one according to his works:

2:7  To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life.

2:8  But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.

2:9  Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek.

2:10  But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek.

2:11  For there is no favoritism with God.

2:12  For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law.

2:13  For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

2:14  For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature those things which are of the law, such persons, not having the law, are a law unto themselves.

2:15  For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them,

2:16  unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

2:17  But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,

2:18  and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law:

2:19  you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

2:20  an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law.

2:21  As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal.

2:22  You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege.

2:23  You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.

2:24  (For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)

2:25  Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

2:26  And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision?

2:27  And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law?

2:28  For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh.

2:29  But a Jew is he who is so inwardly. And circumcision of the heart is in the spirit, not in the letter. For its praise is not of men, but of God.