Romans - Chapter 2 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.
  • 2. And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.
  • 3. And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise 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 for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
  • 6. who will render to every man according to his works:
  • 7. to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:
  • 8. but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, {cf15i shall be} wrath and indignation,
  • 9. tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
  • 10. but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
  • 11. for there is no respect of persons with God.
  • 12. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under 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 Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;
  • 15. in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing {cf15i them});
  • 16. in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
  • 17. But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,
  • 18. and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
  • 19. and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
  • 20. a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
  • 21. thou therefore that 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 rob temples?
  • 23. thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
  • 24. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
  • 25. For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
  • 26. If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
  • 27. and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
  • 28. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
  • 29. but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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