| Chapter 2 |
| 1 | Therefore thou art inexcusable,
O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. |
| 2 |
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them
which commit such things. |
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3 | And thinkest thou this, O man, that
judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape
the judgment of God? |
| 4 | Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness
and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth
thee to repentance? |
| 5 | But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the
righteous judgment of God; |
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6 | Who will render to every man according
to his deeds: |
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7 | To them who by patient continuance in well doing
seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: |
| 8 | But unto
them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath, |
| 9 | Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of
man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; |
| 10 | But
glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and
also to the Gentile: |
| 11 | For there is no respect of persons with
God. |
| 12 |
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish
without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the
law; |
| 13 |
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the
doers of the law shall be justified. |
| 14 | For 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: |
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15 | Which shew the work of the
law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their
thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) |
| 16 | In
the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my
gospel. |
| 17
| Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law,
and makest thy boast of God, |
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18 | And knowest his will, and approvest
the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; |
| 19 |
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them
which are in darkness, |
| 20 | An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. |
| 21 |
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that
preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
| 22 | Thou that
sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that
abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? |
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23 | Thou that makest thy
boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? |
| 24 |
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is
written. |
| 25
| For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law:
but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made
uncircumcision. |
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26 | Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the
righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for
circumcision? |
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27 | And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if
it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost
transgress the law? |
| 28 | For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly;
neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: |
| 29 | But
he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in
the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |
