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.

²For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.

³And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

⁵But 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:

⁶Who will render to every man according to his works.

⁷To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

⁸But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

⁹Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

¹⁰But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹²For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.

¹³For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴For 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.

¹⁵Who 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,

¹⁶In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

¹⁷But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:

¹⁹Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

²¹Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

²²Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

²³Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

²⁴(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

²⁵Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷And 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?

²⁸For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

²⁹But 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.

Chapter 3

What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision?

²Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

³For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid!

⁴But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

⁵But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

⁶(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

⁷For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner?

⁸And not rather (as we are slandered and as some affirm that we say) let us do evil that there may come good? Whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

¹⁰As it is written: There is not any man just.

¹¹There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

¹²All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

¹⁴Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

¹⁵Their feet swift to shed blood:

¹⁶Destruction and misery in their ways:

¹⁷And the way of peace they have not known.

¹⁸There is no fear of God before their eyes.

¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

²⁰Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.

²²Even the justice of God, by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all, and upon all them that believe in him: for there is no distinction.

²³For all have sinned and do need the glory of God.

²⁴Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

²⁵Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

²⁶Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ

²⁷Where is then thy boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

²⁸For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law.

²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also.

³⁰For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith.

³¹Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

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