Romans 2:2–16

²Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things. ³But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same things, that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶who will reward each one according to his works: ⁷to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life, ⁸but to those who act from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger. ⁹There will be affliction and distress for every human being^a who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek, ¹⁰but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹²For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.^{b 14}For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they^* do not have the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one after another accusing or even defending them ¹⁶on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through^c Christ Jesus.