Rom2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
Rom2:2 You say, "We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth."
Rom2:3 Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
Rom2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Rom2:5 But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
Rom2:6 For he will repay according to each one's deeds:
Rom2:7 to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Rom2:8 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
Rom2:9 There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
Rom2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
Rom2:11 For God shows no partiality.
Rom2:12 All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Rom2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom2:14 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.
Rom2:15 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them
Rom2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
Rom2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God
Rom2:18 and know his will and determine what is best because you are instructed in the law,
Rom2:19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Rom2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,
Rom2:21 you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
Rom2:22 You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Rom2:23 You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Rom2:24 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
Rom2:25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Rom2:26 So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom2:27 Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
Rom2:28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
Rom2:29 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart-- it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.