| 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, [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 [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. |
