Chapter 2

  Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest, doest the same things.  

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  But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them who commit such things.  

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  And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?  

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  Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  

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  But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;  

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  Who will render to every man according to his deeds:  

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  To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life:  

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  But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:  

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  Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;  

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  But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile;  

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  For there is no respect of persons with God.  

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  For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law,  

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  (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.  

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  For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law to themselves.  

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  Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing testimony, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another)  

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  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.  

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  Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,  

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  And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,  

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  And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness,  

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  An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast the form of knowledge, and of the truth in the law:  

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  Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?  

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  Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?  

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  Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?  

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  For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, through you, as it is written.  

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  For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keepest the law; but if thou art a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.  

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  Therefore, if the uncircumcision keepeth the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?  

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  And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfilleth the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?  

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  For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:  

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  But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.  

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