God's Righteous Judgment

¹Therefore you have fno excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For gin passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. ²We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. ³Do 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? ⁴Or do you presume on hthe riches of his kindness and iforbearance and jpatience, knot knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are lstoring up mwrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

⁶nHe will render to each one according to his works: ⁷to those who oby patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; ⁸but for those who are self-seeking1 and pdo not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. ⁹There will be tribulation and distress qfor every human being who does evil, the Jew rfirst and also the Greek, ¹⁰but glory and honor and speace for everyone who does good, tthe Jew first and also the Greek. ¹¹For uGod shows no partiality.

God's Judgment and the Law

¹²For all who have sinned vwithout the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³For wit is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. ¹⁴For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, xby nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵They show that the work of the law is ywritten on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them ¹⁶zon that day when, aaccording to my gospel, God judges bthe secrets of men cby Christ Jesus.

¹⁷But if you call yourself a Jew and drely on the law and boast in God ¹⁸and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; ¹⁹and if you are sure that you yourself are ea guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law fthe embodiment of gknowledge and truth— ²¹hyou then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? ²²You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you irob temples? ²³You who jboast in the law kdishonor God by breaking the law. ²⁴For, las it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed mamong the Gentiles because of you.”

²⁵For circumcision indeed is of value nif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. ²⁶So, if oa man who is uncircumcised keeps pthe precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded2 as circumcision? ²⁷Then he who is physically3 uncircumcised but keeps the law qwill condemn you who have rthe written code4 and circumcision but break the law. ²⁸For sno one is a Jew twho is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. ²⁹But a Jew is one uinwardly, and vcircumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. wHis praise is not from man but from God.