Haweis - Romans - 2

2:1  THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, even every one that judgeth: for in the very thing wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest art living in the practices of the same things.

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

2:3  For thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest those who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4  Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?

2:5  But after thy obdurate and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath at the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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

2:7  to those who, in the patient practice of good works, seek glory and honour and immortality―eternal life.

2:8  But to those who are of a contentious spirit, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation, and wrath;

2:9  tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth wickedness, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

2:10  But glory and honour and peace be to every man who doeth that which is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek:

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

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

2:13  for the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be counted righteous;

2:14  (for when the Gentiles, who have not the law naturally, do the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

2:15  which exhibit the practice of the law written on their hearts, their conscience also bearing its testimony, and their mutual reasonings at intervals bringing accusations or forming excuses;)

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

2:17  Lo! thou art named a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

2:18  and knowest the will of God, and bringest to the test the things that are different, being instructed out of the law;

2:19  and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

2:20  an instructor of the uninformed, a teacher of babes, holding the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

2:21  Thou therefore who teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that proclaimest aloud that a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22  thou that sayest, Do not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that holdest idols in abomination, dost thou commit sacrilege?

2:23  thou who gloriest in the law, dishonourest thou God by the transgression of the law?

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

2:25  For circumcision indeed is advantageous, if thou practise the law: but if thou art a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision becomes uncircumcision,

2:26  If then the uncircumcision observe the righteous judgments of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted for circumcision?

2:27  And the uncircumcision by nature which fulfilleth the law shall condemn thee, who through the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law.

2:28  For not he who is outwardly such, is the Jew; neither is that which is outward in the flesh, circumcision.

2:29  But he is a Jew who is such inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.