| 1 | Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. |
| 2 | We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. |
| 3 | Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? |
| 4 | Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? |
| 5 | But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; |
| 6 | who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:" |
| 7 | to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; |
| 8 | but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, |
| 9 | oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. |
| 10 | But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works 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 law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. |
| 13 | For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified |
| 14 | (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, |
| 15 | in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them) |
| 16 | in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ. |
| 17 | Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, |
| 18 | and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, |
| 19 | and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
| 20 | a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. |
| 21 | You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal? |
| 22 | You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
| 23 | You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God? |
| 24 | For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written. |
| 25 | For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
| 26 | If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? |
| 27 | Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are 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 from men, but from God. |
