The Impartiality of God
1 Romans 2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2 Romans 2:2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
3 Romans 2:3 But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4 Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
5 Romans 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 Romans 2:6 who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:
7 Romans 2:7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
8 Romans 2:8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
9 Romans 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
10 Romans 2:10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 Romans 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 Romans 2:12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
13 Romans 2:13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
14 Romans 2:14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
15 Romans 2:15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
16 Romans 2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
The Jew Is Condemned by the Law
17 Romans 2:17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,
18 Romans 2:18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,
19 Romans 2:19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 Romans 2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
21 Romans 2:21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?
22 Romans 2:22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 Romans 2:23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?
24 Romans 2:24 For “THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU,” just as it is written.
25 Romans 2:25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 Romans 2:26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27 Romans 2:27 And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?
28 Romans 2:28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29 Romans 2:29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.