1 T herefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

2 B ut we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3 A nd do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

4 O r do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

5 B ut in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

6 w ho “will render to each one according to his deeds”:

7 e ternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

8 b ut to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

9 t ribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

10 b ut glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

11 F or there is no partiality with God.

12 F or as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

13 ( for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

14 f or when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,

15 w ho show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them )

16 i n the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles

17 I ndeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God,

18 a nd know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

19 a nd are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20 a n instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.

21 Y ou, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

22 Y ou who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23 Y ou who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

24 F or “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written. Circumcision of No Avail

25 F or circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26 T herefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27 A nd will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

28 F or he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;

29 b ut 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.