Romans 2
Those who judge others will be judged by God according to their own actions, and will not escape God's judgment by condemning others for the same things they do. God's judgment is based on truth and will render to each person according to their works, with eternal life for those who seek glory and honor through good works, and wrath for those who are contentious and trust in iniquity. God shows no favoritism, and those who sin without the law will perish without the law, while those who sin under the law will be judged by the law. True righteousness comes not from outward appearances or knowledge of the law, but from inward obedience and a circumcised heart.
1For 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 judge2For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things3But, 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 God4Or 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 repentance5But 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 God6For he will render to each one according to his works7To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life8But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation9Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek10But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek11For there is no favoritism with God12For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law13For 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 justified14For 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 themselves15For 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 them16unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel17But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God18and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law19you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness20an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law21As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal22You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege23You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God24(For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.25Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision26And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision27And 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 law28For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh29But 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
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