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The Impartiality of God
1 Therefore you have
Ano excuse,
1Beveryone of you who passes judgment, for in that which
Cyou judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2 And we know that the judgment of God
1rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
3 But do you suppose this,
AO man,
1when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same
yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you think lightly of
Athe riches of His
Bkindness and
Ctolerance and
Dpatience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But
1because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart
Ayou are storing up wrath for yourself
Bin the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 Awho wɪʟʟ ʀᴇɴᴅᴇʀ ᴛo ᴇᴀcʜ ᴘᴇʀsoɴ ᴀccoʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴛo ʜɪs ᴅᴇᴇᴅs:
7 to those who by
Aperseverance in doing good seek for
Bglory and honor and
Cimmortality,
Deternal life;
8 but to those who are
Aselfishly ambitious and
Bdo not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
9 There will be Atribulation and distress
1for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew
Bfirst and also of the Greek,
10 but
Aglory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew
Bfirst and also to the Greek.
11 For
Athere is no partiality with God.
12 For all who have sinned
1Awithout the Law will also perish
1without the Law, and all who have sinned
2under the Law will be judged
3by the Law;
13 for
it is Anot the hearers
1of the Law
who are
2just before God, but the doers
1of the Law will be justified.
14 For when Gentiles who do not have
1the Law do
2Ainstinctively the things of the Law, these, not having
1the Law, are a law to themselves,
15 in that they show
Athe work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
16 on the day when,
Aaccording to my gospel,
BGod will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
The Jew Is Condemned by the Law
17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and
Arely
1upon the Law and boast in God,
18 and know
His will and
1Aapprove the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 a
1corrector of the foolish, a teacher of
2the immature, having in the Law
Athe embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
21 you, therefore,
Awho teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who
1preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?
22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you
Arob temples?
23 You who
Aboast
1in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?
24 For “
Aᴛʜᴇ ɴᴀᴍᴇ oꜰ Goᴅ ɪs ʙʟᴀsᴘʜᴇᴍᴇᴅ ᴀᴍoɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ Gᴇɴᴛɪʟᴇs
Bʙᴇcᴀᴜsᴇ oꜰ ʏoᴜ,” just as it is written.
25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you
Apractice
1the Law; but if you are a transgressor
2of the Law,
Byour circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 ASo if
Bthe
1uncircumcised man
Ckeeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27 And
Ahe who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not
Bjudge you who
1though having the letter
of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor
2of the Law?
28 For
Ahe is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
29 But
Ahe is a Jew who is one inwardly; and
Bcircumcision is that which is of the heart, by the
CSpirit, not by the letter;
Dand his praise is not from men, but from God.