point is that “God shows no partiality” because all have sinned and are equally deserving of God’s wrath. Yet, at the same time, this also means that God’s gracious gift of salvation in Christ is open to anybody—“to the Jew first, and also the Greek” (v. 10–11). Romans 2:6 through Romans 4 has been interpreted in two very different ways by Catholics and non-Catholic Christians, especially when it comes to the matter of justification. For many non-Catholic Christians, Romans
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