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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.

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Footnotes

  1. ach. 1:20 (Gk.).
  2. bLuke 12:14. ver. 3. ch. 9:20.
  3. dSo ch. 1:32.
  4. bLuke 12:14. ver. 3. ch. 9:20.
  5. ech. 9:23. 2 Cor. 8:2. Eph. 1:7, 18. & 2:4, 7. & 3:16. Col. 1:27. & 2:2.
  6. fch. 3:25. See Eccles. 8:11.
  7. gch. 9:22. 1 Tim. 1:16. 1 Pet. 3:20. 2 Pet. 3:15. So Ex. 34:6. Comp. 2 Esdr. 7:64.
  8. hIsai. 30:18. 2 Pet. 3:9. Comp. Ps. 50:21.
  9. lSee Ps. 62:12. & Eccles. 12:14. So ch. 14:12. Rev. 20:12, 13. Comp. 2 Esdr. 8:33.
  10. mSee Luke 8:15.
  11. nch. 5 (17), 21. & 6:23. See Matt. 25:46.
  12. oPhil. 1:16 (Gk.).
  13. pComp. Job 24:13. ch. 1:18. 2 Thess. 1:8.
  14. qComp. Prov. 11:23.
  15. rch. 8:35 (Gk.). Wisd. 5:3. 1 Macc. 2:53 (Gk.). So 2 Cor. 4:8 (Gk.).
  16. rch. 8:35 (Gk.). Wisd. 5:3. 1 Macc. 2:53 (Gk.). So 2 Cor. 4:8 (Gk.).
  17. sSee Ps. 32:10.
  18. tch. 1:16. Comp. Amos 3:2. 1 Pet. 4:17.
  19. †Gr. Greek. ver. 10. See ch. 1:16.
  20. †Gr. Greek. ver. 9.
  21. xSee Deut. 10:17.
  22. zJames 1:22, 23, 25. So Matt. 7:21. Acts 10:35. 1 John 2:29. & 3:7, 10.
  23. aSee Luke 18:14.
  24. ||Or, the conscience witnessing with them. Comp. ch. 9:1.
  25. bSee ch. 1:19.
  26. ||Or, between themselves. So Matt. 18:15. Acts 15:9.
  27. cEccles. 12:14. Matt. 12:36. & 25:31. John 12:48. Acts 24:25. ch. 3:6. 1 Cor. 4:5. Heb. 9:27. Rev. 20:12.
  28. dJohn 5:22, 27. Acts 10:42. & 17:31. ch. 14:10, 12. 2 Cor. 5:10. 2 Tim. 4:1, 8. 1 Pet. 4:5. See Matt. 16:27.
  29. ech. 16:25. 2 Tim. 2:8. So 1 Cor. 15:1. Gal. 1:11. & 2:2. 1 Tim. 1:11.
  30. fMatt. 3:9. John 8:33, 39. ch. 9:6, 7. ver. 28. 2 Cor. 11:22. Rev. 2:9. & 3:9.
  31. gSee Mic. 3:11. So John 5:45. ch. 9:4.
  32. hver. 23. So Isai. 48:2. John 8:41. ch. 3:27. & 4:2.
  33. iSee ch. 3:2.
  34. ||Or, triest the things that differ. Phil. 1:10.
  35. kch. 1:28. & 12:2. & 14:22. 1 Cor. 3:13. & 11:28. & 16:3, &c. in the Gk. So 1 Pet. 1:7 (Gk.).
  36. lSee Luke 1:4.
  37. mComp. Matt. 15:14. & 23:16, 17, 19, 24. John 9:40, 41.
  38. n2 Tim. 3:5. So ch. 6:17. 2 Tim. 1:13. Comp. Gal. 4:19.
  39. pComp. Ps. 50:16–21. Matt. 23:3–32.
  40. qComp. John 8:9.
  41. rSo Mal. 1:8, 12, 14. & 3:8. Comp. Acts 19:37 (Gk.).
  42. sSee ver. 17.
  43. tCited from Isai. 52:5.
  44. uSo 2 Sam. 12:14. Cited generally from Ezek. 36:20, 23.
  45. wSo Gal. 5:3.
  46. xSee Acts 10:35.
  47. ySee ch. 1:32.
  48. zSee Matt. 12:41.
  49. ach. 7:6. 2 Cor. 3:6. So ver. 29.
  50. bSee ver. 17. So Gal. 6:15.
  51. dSo Phil. 3:3. Col. 2:11. See Deut. 10:16.
  52. eSo ch. 7:6.
  53. ach. 7:6. 2 Cor. 3:6. So ver. 29.

Cross references

  1. c2 Sam. 12:5–7. Matt. 7:1, 2. John 8:7.
  2. iDeut. 32:34. Job 36:13? James 5:3.
  3. kPs. 110:5.
  4. uLuke 12:47, 48.
  5. uLuke 12:47, 48.
  6. w1 Pet. 1:7.
  7. w1 Pet. 1:7.
  8. uLuke 12:47, 48.
  9. uLuke 12:47, 48.
  10. yJohn 5:45.
  11. oLuke 11:52.
  12. c1 Pet. 3:4.
  13. f1 Cor. 4:5.
  14. g2 Cor. 10:18. 1 Thess. 2:4.