Romans 2–3

2Therefore 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.

3What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? ²Much every way: chiefly, because that ^aunto them were committed ^bthe oracles of God. ³For ^cwhat if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make ^dthe faith of God without effect? ^4eGod forbid: yea, let ^fGod be true, but ^gevery man a liar; as it is written, ^hThat thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. ⁵But if our unrighteousness ⁱcommend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? ^k(I speak as a man) ^6eGod forbid: for then ^lhow shall God judge the world? ⁷For if ^mthe truth of God hath more abounded through ^mmy lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? ⁸And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) ⁿLet us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

⁹What then? ^oare we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before ^†proved both ^pJews and ^qGentiles, that ^rthey are all under sin; ¹⁰As it is written, ^sThere is none righteous, no, not one: ¹¹There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. ¹²They are all gone out of the way, they are together ^tbecome unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ^13uTheir throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; ^xthe poison of asps is under their lips: ^14yWhose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ^15zaTheir feet are swift to shed blood: ¹⁶Destruction and misery are in their ways: ¹⁷And the way of peace have they not known: ^18bThere is no fear of God before their eyes. ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever ^cthe law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that ^devery mouth may be stopped, and ^eall the world may become ^||guilty before God. ^20fTherefore ^gby the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for ^hby the law is the knowledge of sin.

²¹But now ⁱthe righteousness of God ^jwithout the law is manifested, being witnessed by ^klthe law and ^lmthe prophets; ²²Even the righteousness of God which is ⁿby faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for ^othere is no difference: ²³For ^eall have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴Being justified ^pfreely ^qby his grace ^rthrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: ²⁵Whom God hath ^||sset forth ^tto be a propitiation through faith ^uin his blood, ^wto declare his righteousness for the ^||remission of ^xsins that are past, through the ^yforbearance of God; ^26wTo declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. ^27zWhere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? ^aof works? Nay: but by the law of faith. ²⁸Therefore we ^bconclude ^cthat a man is justified by faith ^dwithout the deeds of the law. ²⁹Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: ³⁰Seeing ^eit is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and ^funcircumcision through faith. ³¹Do we then make void the law through faith? ^gGod forbid: yea, ^hwe establish the law.