1 T herefore 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 W e know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

3 D o 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 O r do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

5 B ut 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 w ho “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

7 t o those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

8 b ut to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

9 o ppression and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

10 B ut glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does 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 the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

13 F or 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 i n 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 i n the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

17 I ndeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory 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 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 Y ou therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

22 Y ou who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23 Y ou who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

24 F or “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

25 F or 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 I f therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

27 W on’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 F or he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision 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.