Romans 2
1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do 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 unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in 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 the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which 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 commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Cross-references
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- 1Luk 6:37, Rom 2:3, Jhn 8:7–9, Rom 2:21–23, Mat 7:1–5, Rom 1:18–20, 2Sa 12:5–7, Psa 50:16–20
- 2Psa 9:7–8, Zep 3:5, Psa 145:17, Jer 12:1, Psa 98:9, Psa 96:13, Rev 16:5, 2Th 1:5–10
- 3Pro 16:5, Luk 12:14, Rom 1:32–2:1, Mat 23:33, Job 35:2, Psa 50:21, Dan 10:19, Luk 22:58
- 42Pe 3:9, Isa 30:18, Exo 34:6, Rom 9:22–23, Tit 3:4–6, Eph 1:18, Psa 86:15, Eph 2:7
- 5Ecc 12:14, Rom 1:18, Rom 2:2–3, Heb 3:15, Jud 1:6, 2Pe 3:7, Rom 9:22, Deu 32:34
- 6Psa 62:12, Jer 32:19, Mat 16:27, 2Co 5:10, Jer 17:10, Rev 20:12, Rev 22:12, Job 34:11
- 72Ti 4:7–8, Luk 8:15, 2Ti 1:10, 1Co 15:58, 1Pe 1:7–8, Rev 2:10–11, Heb 10:35–36, Rom 6:23
- 82Th 1:8, 1Ti 6:3–4, Jhn 3:18–21, 1Pe 4:17, 2Th 2:10–12, Rev 16:19, Pro 13:10, Job 24:13
- 91Pe 4:17, Ezk 18:4, Rom 3:29–30, Rom 1:16, Rom 15:8–9, Act 3:26, Luk 24:47, Act 18:5–6
- 10Isa 32:17, Isa 26:12, 1Pe 1:7, Num 6:26, Rom 2:7, Luk 1:79, Jas 3:13, Rom 8:6
- 11Deu 10:17, Act 10:34, 2Ch 19:7, Gal 2:6, Job 34:19, Gal 6:7–8, Deu 16:19, Col 3:25
- 121Co 9:21, Gal 3:10, Act 17:30–31, Gal 2:16–19, Rom 2:14–16, Rom 7:7–11, Rom 8:3, Luk 10:12–15
- 13Jas 1:22–25, 1Jn 3:7, Jas 2:21–25, Rom 2:25, Gal 2:16, Luk 8:21, Rom 10:5, Gal 3:11–12
- 14Rom 1:19–20, Rom 2:12, Rom 2:27, Act 17:30, Eph 2:12, Psa 147:19–20, Act 10:35, Rom 3:1–2
- 152Co 5:11, 2Co 1:12, Tit 1:15, Rom 1:18–19, 1Jn 3:19–21, Rom 9:1, Job 27:6, 1Ti 4:2
- 16Ecc 12:14, 1Co 4:5, Act 17:31, Luk 8:17, Act 10:42, Jhn 5:22–29, Rom 3:6, 1Pe 4:5
- 17Rom 2:23, Mic 3:11, Isa 48:1–2, Rev 2:9, Rom 9:4–7, Jhn 5:45, Rom 9:32, Rom 2:28–29
- 181Th 5:21, Jas 4:17, Php 1:10, Deu 4:8, Jhn 13:17, Psa 119:98–100, 2Ti 3:15–17, Luk 12:47
- 19Rev 3:17–18, Jhn 9:34, 1Co 4:10, 1Co 8:1–2, Isa 5:21, Mat 15:14, Pro 26:12, Isa 49:6
- 202Ti 3:5, Tit 1:16, 2Ti 1:13, Rom 6:17, 1Co 3:1, Heb 5:13, Mat 11:25, 1Pe 2:2
- 211Co 9:27, Mat 23:3–28, Mic 3:11, Luk 12:47, Luk 11:46, Tit 2:1–7, Psa 50:16–21, Ezk 22:12–13
- 22Mal 3:8, Mat 12:39, Jer 5:7, Ezk 22:11, Act 19:37, Jas 4:4, Mal 1:14, Jer 7:9–10
- 23Jas 4:16–17, Rom 2:17, Rom 9:4, Jhn 5:45, Rom 3:2, Jas 1:22–27, Jhn 9:28–29, Jer 8:8–9
- 24Ezk 36:20–23, Isa 52:5, 2Pe 2:2, Lam 2:15–16, Tit 2:8, 2Sa 12:14
- 25Gal 5:3–6, Jer 4:4, Act 7:51, Gal 6:15, Jer 9:25–26, Deu 30:6, Rom 2:23, Rom 2:28–3:2
- 26Col 2:11, 1Co 7:18–19, Rom 8:4, Act 10:2–4, Rom 3:30, Isa 56:6–7, Mat 8:11–12, Php 3:3
- 27Mat 12:41–42, Rom 2:29, Rom 7:6–8, Rom 8:4, 2Co 3:6, Mat 3:15, Rom 13:10, Rom 2:20
- 28Gal 6:15, Mat 3:9, Rom 9:6–8, Rev 2:9, Rom 4:10–12, Isa 48:1–2, Hos 1:6–9, Psa 73:1
- 29Deu 30:6, Php 3:3, Deu 10:16, Col 2:11–12, Jer 4:4, 1Th 2:4, 2Co 10:18, 1Pe 3:4
Topics in this chapter
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Anger, Babes, Blasphemy, Blindness, Circumcision, Confidence, Conscience, Conviction, Decision, Depravity of Man, Doer, Escape, Excuses, Formalism, Gentiles, God, Greece, Hearers, Heart, Holiness, Hypocrisy, Immortality, Impenitence, Inconsistency, Instruction, Judgment, Justification, Law, Life, Man, Minister, Christian, Obligation, Patience, Peace, Perseverance, Punishment, Quotations and Allusions, Regeneration, Repentance, Respect of Persons, Reward, Righteous, Rome, Salvation, Science, Secret, Self-Condemnation, Self-Righteousness, Sin, Strife, Thankfulness, Theft and Thieves, Truth, Uncharitableness, Wicked (People), Word of God, Works