Romans 2:13–25

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.