OrthJBC - Romans - 2

2:1  For this reason, you are without ptur (excuse) for yourself (before an angry G-d), you sir, each one of you who passes judgment. For in that you pass judgment on the other, you condemn yourself; for you practice the very things on which you pass judgment.

2:2  And we know that the mishpat (justice) of Hashem HaShofet (Rom. 1:32) against those who practice such things is in accordance with the Emes Hashem (Rom. 1:25).

2:3  You sir, you who pass judgment on those who practice such things and yet do the same yourself, do you suppose then that you will escape the Mishpat Hashem?

2:4  Or do you think lightly of the wealth of His nedivut and of His chesed and of His being ERECH APAYIM ("slow of anger, forbearing SHEMOT 34:6) and of His zitzfleisch (patience), disregarding the fact that the Chesed Hashem (the kindness of G-d) is to lead you to teshuvah (repentance)?

2:5  As a result of your KESHI (stubbornness, hardness DEVARIM 9:27) and your levavot without teshuvah, you are storing up for yourself Charon Af Hashem (the burning anger of G-d) in the Yom Af (the Day of Wrath--Psalm 110:5, i.e. the Yom haDin, the Day of Judgment), when will be revealed the Tzidkat Mishpat Hashem (the righteous judgment of G-d--Rom.1:17),

2:6  who will render L'ISH K'MA'A'SEI HU (to each according to his works"--TEHILLIM 62:12[13]). SOME REJECT THE EMES HASHEM AND TAKE THE DERECH RESHA'IM (TEHILLIM 1:6) LEADING TO HASHEM'S CHARON AF (BURNING ANGER); OTHERS TAKE THE PATH OF CHAYYEI OLAM

2:7  To those who, by zitzfleisch (patience), persevere in doing ma'asim tovim, seek for kavod (glory) and honor and incorruptibility (TEHILLIM 16:10), He will give Chayyei HaOlamim (Eternal Life).

2:8  But to those who are self-seeking and who have no mishma'at (obedience) to the Emes Hashem (Rom. 1:25), but instead have mishma'at to resha, there will be Charon Af Hashem and fury.

2:9  There will be affliction and distress on every living neshamah who brings about what is ra'a (evil), Yehudi above all and Yevani (Greek) as well.

2:10  But tiferet and kavod and shalom to everyone who brings about what is haTov (good), Yehudi above all and Yevani as well.

2:11  For ki ein masso panim im Hashem (there is no partiality with Hashem).

2:12  For as many as have committed averos and sinned lacking the Torah shall also perish lacking the Torah; and as many as have committed averos (sin) under the Torah shall be condemned under the Torah.

2:13  For it is not the Shomei HaTorah (hearers of the Law of Moshe Rabbeinu) who are the tzaddikim, accounted to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM ("justified with G-d" IYOV 25:4). It is the Shomrei HaTorah (the keepers of the Law of Moshe Rabbeinu) which will be counted to be YITZDAK IM HASHEM.

2:14  For when Goyim, who have not the Torah, do by nature what the Torah requires, they not having the Torah are the Torah for themselves,

2:15  in that they demonstrate the Torah at work [YIRMEYAH 31:33], the Torah written in their levavot, their matzpun also bearing witness, while their thoughts bring accusation or even make defense among themselves,

2:16  in the Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment) when Hashem is to judge the secrets of Bnei Adam in accordance with my Besuras HaGeulah through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. ON THE YEHUDIM AND THE TORAH

2:17  But if you are called by the name Yehudi (Jew) and rely on the Torah and boast in Hashem,

2:18  and know His will and approve the things that matter, being instructed from the Torah

2:19  and being bittachon that you are a moreh derech (guide) of the iverim (blind ones), an Ohr for those in choshech,

2:20  a rabbinic moreh (teacher) of the foolish, a melammed (instructor) of the young, having the embodiment of da'as (knowledge) and Emes (Rom.1:25) in the Torah...

2:21  You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach LO TIGNOV ("Do not steal!" SHEMOT 20:15), do you steal?

2:22  You who say, LO TINAF ("Do not commit adultery!" SHEMOT 20:14), do you commit adultery? You who abhor elilim (idols), do you rob pagan temples?

2:23  You who boast in the Torah--through lasur min haTorah (deviating from the Torah) you commit Chillul Hashem.

2:24  As it is written, Among the Goyim KOL HAYOM HA-SHEM HAELOHIM MINNO'ATZ ("All the day long the Name of G-d is being blasphemed" (YESHAYAH 52:5) because of you. WITHOUT BELITTLING THE BRIS MILAH OR THE TORAH OR THE MINHAGIM OR THE AM KADOSH (ACTS 21:18-26 VINDICATES RAV SHA'UL THAT THERE WAS "NOTHING IN THE REPORTS" THAT HE WAS A TRAITOR TO ANY OF THESE), AN ARGUMENT CAN BE MADE REGARDING DEVARIM 27:26, MISHMA'AT AND ARUR ASHER LO YAKIM ES DIVREI HATORAH HAZOT LA'ASOT OTAM (MAT. 5:18-19; 23:23; JAM.2:10): THE HASIDEI UMMOT HAOLAM (THE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES) WILL SURPASS YOU YEHUDIM WHO PLACE UNWARRANTED BITTACHON IN BRIS MILAH AND BEING SHOMER MITZVOT "TO THE LETTER" (CHUMRA) AND BEING YEHUDIM IN THE YECHUS AVOT (MERIT OF THE FATHERS), YET HAVE ONLY THE FORM AND NOT THE SUBSTANCE OF THE TORAH, WHILE THE RIGHTEOUS GENTILES, EVEN WITHOUT THE FORM, HAVE MISHMA'AT TO THE TORAH AND SO SURPASS YOU YEHUDIM, UNAWARE, AS YOU ARE, OF THE TURNING OF THE AGES AND THE NEED FOR THE ULTIMATE BRIS MILAH IN THE MOSHIACH, THAT OF HITKHADESHUT INWARDLY IN THE RUACH HAKODESH AND IN THE MOSHIACH

2:25  For the bris milah (circumcision) is of benefit if you stand in mishma'at (obedience) to the Torah. But if you are guilty, lasur min haTorah (deviating from the Torah) (2:23), your bris milah has become uncircumcision.

2:26  If then the ish without bris milah is shomer regarding the just requirements of the Torah (1:32), will not his uncircumcision be counted as bris milah?

2:27  And the naturally uncircumcised ish who is mishma'at to the Torah will arise as a judgment on you. You! The very one who through the chumra (strict adherence to the letter of the law, legalism) and uncircumcision (2:25) are the transgressor of Torah!

2:28  For the true Yehudi (Jew) is not the one [humanly] perceived as such, nor true bris milah that which is performed visibly in the flesh;

2:29  the true Yehudi is so in [Hashem's] hidden way, and true bris milah is of the lev, in the Ruach Hakodesh, not in the chumra (strict adherence to the letter of the law, legalism). The one so marked has hodaah (praise--"Yehudah/Hodah/Praise" ...see Bereshis 29:35) that comes not from Bnei Adam but from Hashem.