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Romans Chapter 2 The Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not. He declares who are the true Jews. 2:1. Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest. 2:2. For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. 2:3.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 2:4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? 2:5. But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: 2:6. Who will render to every man according to his works. 2:7.
To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: 2:8. But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. 2:9. Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. 2:10. But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 2:11. For there is no respect of persons with God. 2:12.
For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. 2:13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified. 2:14. For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves. 2:15.
Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another, 2:16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. 2:17. But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, 2:18. And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law: 2:19.
Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. 2:21. Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. 2:22. Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: 2:23.
Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God. 2:24. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) 2:25. Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 2:26. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 2:27.
And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? 2:28. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. 2:29. But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.