| 1 | For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge. |
| 2 | For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things. |
| 3 | But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God? |
| 4 | Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance? |
| 5 | But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God. |
| 6 | For he will render to each one according to his works: |
| 7 | To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life. |
| 8 | But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation. |
| 9 | Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek. |
| 10 | But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek. |
| 11 | For there is no favoritism with God. |
| 12 | For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law. |
| 13 | For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified. |
| 14 | For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature those things which are of the law, such persons, not having the law, are a law unto themselves. |
| 15 | For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them, |
| 16 | unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel. |
| 17 | But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God, |
| 18 | and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law: |
| 19 | you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
| 20 | an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law. |
| 21 | As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal. |
| 22 | You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege. |
| 23 | You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God. |
| 24 | (For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.) |
| 25 | Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. |
| 26 | And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision? |
| 27 | And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law? |
| 28 | For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh. |
| 29 | But a Jew is he who is so inwardly. And circumcision of the heart is in the spirit, not in the letter. For its praise is not of men, but of God. |
