Geneva1599 - Romans - 2

2:1  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoeuer thou art that condemnest: for in that that thou condemnest another, thou condemnest thy selfe: for thou that condemnest, doest the same things.

2:2  But we know that the iudgement of God is according to trueth, against them which comit such things.

2:3  And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?

2:5  But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,

2:6  Who wil reward euery man according to his woorkes:

2:7  That is, to them which through patience in well doing, seeke glorie, and honour, and immortalitie, euerlasting life:

2:8  But vnto them that are contentious and disobey the trueth, and obey vnrighteousnesse, shalbe indignation and wrath.

2:9  Tribulation and anguish shalbe vpon the soule of euery man that doeth euill: of the Iewe first, and also of the Grecian.

2:10  But to euery man that doeth good, shalbe glory, and honour, and peace: to the Iew first, and also to the Grecian.

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

2:12  For as many as haue sinned without the Lawe, shall perish also without the Lawe: and as many as haue sinned in the Lawe, shall be iudged by the Lawe,

2:13  (For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Lawe shalbe iustified.

2:14  For when the Gentiles which haue not the Lawe, doe by nature, the things conteined in the Lawe, they hauing not the Lawe, are a Lawe vnto themselues,

2:15  Which shew the effect of the Lawe written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnes, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)

2:16  At the day when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

2:17  Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,

2:18  And knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Lawe:

2:19  And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,

2:20  An instructer of them which lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast the forme of knowledge, and of the truth in ye Law.

2:21  Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

2:22  Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

2:23  Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

2:24  For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

2:25  For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

2:26  Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

2:27  And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

2:28  For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

2:29  But he is a Iewe which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.