Romans 2:1-18 ▼

1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one who is judging. For in that which you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, for you, the one judging, practice the same things.

2 But we know that the judgment of God upon those practicing such things is according to truth.

3 Now do you reckon this, O man, the one judging those practicing such things, and doing them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

6 who “will repay to each according to his works,”

7 to those who indeed with perseverance in good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;

8 but to those of self-interest and disobeying the truth but obeying unrighteousness, wrath and anger;

9 tribulation and distress upon every soul of man working evil, both of Jew first, and also of Greek;

10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone working good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

11 For there is no partiality with God.

12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law,

13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God; but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

14 For when Gentiles, not having the law, may do by nature the things of the law, these not having a law are a law to themselves,

15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also testifying, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending them

16 on the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

17 But if you are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,

18 and you know the will and approve the things being superior, being instructed out of the law,