Romans 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 Therefore, you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judges! For in whatever you judge another, you judge yourself. For you who judge do the same things.

² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, against those who commit such things.

³ And do you think, O man - who judges those who do such things and yet does the same - that you shall escape the judgment of God?

⁴ Or do you think so little of the riches of His bountifulness and patience and long suffering, not knowing that the bountifulness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵ But you, because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, are laying up a treasure of wrath for yourself on the Day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,

⁶ Who will reward everyone according to his works.

⁷ Indeed those who, through patience in well-doing, seek glory and honor and immortality (everlasting life).

⁸ But to those who are contentious, and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness, shall be indignation and wrath.

⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon the soul of every man who does evil –the Jew first, and also the Greek.

¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace shall be to everyone who does good - to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without the Law, shall also perish without the Law. And as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law,

¹³ (For the hearers of the Law are not righteous before God. But the doers of the Law shall be justified.

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, who do not have the Law, instinctively do the things contained in the Law, then they - not having the Law - are a Law unto themselves,

¹⁵ who show the effect of the Law written on their hearts; their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing)

¹⁶ on the day when God shall judge the secrets of man by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

¹⁷ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and glory in God.

¹⁸ And you know His will, and test the things which dissent from it, being instructed by the Law.

¹⁹ And you persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of those who lack discretion; a teacher of the unlearned, who has the semblance of knowledge and truth in the Law.

²¹ You therefore, who teaches another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

²² You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

²³ You who glory in the Law, through breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

²⁴ For “the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you”, as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the Law. But if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ Therefore, if the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not the naturally uncircumcised (if he keeps the Law) condemn those who, being under the letter and circumcision, are transgressors of the Law?

²⁸ For no one is a Jew outwardly. Nor is circumcision outward, in the flesh.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is one within. And circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit (not in the letter) whose praise is not from man, but from God.