Romans 2:1-9 ▼

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;