Romans:2

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* You are therefore inexcusable , O man , whoever you are , that sits in judgment ; for in judging another you are condemning yourself . You , the judge , are habitually practising the very same things . * "We know that Gods judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth ," you say ? * Very well ; and do you suppose , you who judge those that practise such vices , and are doing the very same , that you will elude the judgment of God ? * Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience ? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance ? * In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath , when the righteous judgment of God is revealed . * For He will render to every man according to his works ; * eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality ; * but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth , but obey unrighteousness . * Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practises evil , upon the Jew first , and also upon the Gentile ; * but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good , to the Jew first , and also to the Gentile . * For there is no partiality with God . * For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law ; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law . * For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God ; nay , it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous . * For when Gentiles , who have no law , obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law , they even though they have no law , are a law to themselves . * For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts , while their conscience bears them witness , as their reasonings accuse , or it may be defend , them , * in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ , according to my gospel . * Now if you bear the name of a Jew , and rely upon law , and boast yourself in God , * and know his will , and can test the things that differ ; if you are instructed out of the Law , * and are confident that you yourself are a darkness , * an instructor of the foolish , a teacher of the young , because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then , you who are teaching others , do you ever teach yourself ? * You who are preaching that a man should not steal , do you practise theft ? * You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery , do you commit adultery ? You who hold idols in abhorrence , are you plundering their temples ? * You who are making your boast in the Law , do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law ? * For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you , even as the Scripture itself says . * Circumcision does indeed profit , if you are obedient to the Law ; but if you habitually break the Law , your circumcision is become uncircumcision . * So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law , shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision . * And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised , but who keep the Law , condemn you who are a breaker of the Law , although you have a written law and circumcision ? * For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly , and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh ; * but the real Jew is one inwardly , and real circumcision is heart - circumcision , spiritual , not literal , praised not by men , but by God .

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