2:1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2:2 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 2:3 Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God 2:4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance 2:5 But because of 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. 2:6 He will render to each one according to his works: 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 2:8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 2:11 For God shows no partiality. 2:12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 2:13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 2:14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 2:15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 2:16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. 2:17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 2:18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 2:19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 2:20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-- 2:21 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself While you preach against stealing, do you steal 2:22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery You who abhor idols, do you rob temples 2:23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. 2:24 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." 2:25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 2:26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision 2:27 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. 2:28 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 2:29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.