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.
02 But we are sure that the judgment of God is
according to truth against them which commit such
things.
03 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?
04 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness
and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing
that the goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance?
05 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;
06 Who will render to every man according to his
deeds:
07 To them who by patient continuance in well
doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life:
08 But unto them that are contentious, and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath,
09 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:
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;)
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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,
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?
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.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the
righteousness of the law, shall not his
uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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.
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