Romans 2:2–16

²We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth. ³Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?^{* 5}But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.^{* 6}He will repay according to each one’s deeds:^{* 7}to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, ⁸while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.^{* 9}There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek,^{* 10}but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek. ¹¹For God shows no partiality.^*

¹²All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged in accordance with the law. ¹³For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.^{* 14}When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do^h what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. ¹⁵They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, as their own conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them ¹⁶on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.^*