Montgomery - Romans - 2

2:1  You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things.

2:2  "We know that God’s judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

2:3  Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

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

2:5  In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

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

2:7  eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

2:8  but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

2:9  Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practises evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

2:10  but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

2:11  For there is no partiality with God.

2:12  For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

2:13  For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

2:14  For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

2:15  For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

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

2:17  Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

2:18  and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law,

2:19  and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

2:20  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

2:21  You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

2:22  You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

2:23  You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

2:24  For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

2:25  Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.

2:26  So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.

2:27  And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

2:28  For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

2:29  but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart- circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.