Romans 2

Therefore thou art ^ainexcusable, ^bO man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for ^cwherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. ²But ^dwe are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. ³And thinkest thou this, ^bO man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or despisest thou ^ethe riches of his goodness and ^fforbearance and ^glongsuffering; ^hnot knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart ⁱtreasurest up unto thyself wrath against ^kthe day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; ^6lwho will render to every man according to his deeds: ⁷to them who by ^mpatient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, ⁿeternal life: ⁸but unto them ^othat are contentious, and ^pdo not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and ^qwrath, ^9rtribulation and ^ranguish, ^supon every soul of man that doeth evil, ^tof the ^uJew first, and also of the ^uGentile; ¹⁰but ^wglory, ^whonour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: ¹¹for there is ^xno respect of persons with God. ¹²For ^uas many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and ^uas many as have sinned in the law shall be judged ^yby the law; ¹³(for not ^zthe hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law ^ashall be justified. ¹⁴For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: ¹⁵which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and ^btheir thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) ^16cin the day when God shall judge the secrets of men ^dby Jesus Christ ^eaccording to my gospel.

¹⁷Behold, ^fthou art called a Jew, and ^grestest in the law, and ^hmakest thy boast of God, ¹⁸and ⁱknowest his will, and ^kapprovest the things that are more excellent, ^lbeing instructed out of the law; ¹⁹and ^mart confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, ²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast ⁿthe form of ^oknowledge and of the truth in the law. ^21pThou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ^22qThou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, ^rdost thou commit sacrilege? ^23sthou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? ²⁴For ^tthe name of God is blasphemed ^uamong the Gentiles through you, as it is written. ^25wFor circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. ²⁶Therefore ^xif the uncircumcision keep ^ythe righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, ^zjudge thee, who by ^athe letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? ²⁸For ^bhe is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: ²⁹but he is a Jew, ^cwhich is one inwardly; and ^dcircumcision is that of the heart, ^ein the spirit, and not in ^athe letter; ^fwhose praise is ^gnot of men, but of God.

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