God's
Righteous Judgment
You,
therefore, have no excuse,
You
who pass Judgment on someone else,
For
what ever point you Judge the other,
You
are Condemning yourself,
Because
you who pass Judgment do the same things.
2
Now we know that God's Judgment
Against
those who do such things is based on Truth.
3
So when you, a mere man,
Pass
Judgment on them and yet do the same things,
Do
you think you will Escape God's Judgment?
4
Or do you show Contempt for the riches of His Kindness,
Tolerance
and Patience,
NOT
REALIZING THAT GOD'S KINDNESS
LEADS
YOU TOWARD REPENTANCE?
5
But because of your Stubbornness
And
your Unrepentant heart,
YOU
ARE STORING UP WRATH AGAINST YOURSELF
FOR
THE DAY OF GOD'S WRATH,
WHEN
HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT WILL BE REVEALED.
6
GOD 'WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON
ACCORDING
TO WHAT HE HAS DONE.'
7
TO THOSE WHO BY PERSISTENCE IN DOING GOOD
SEEK
GLORY, HONOR AND IMMORTALITY,
HE
WILL GIVE ETERNAL LIFE.
8
BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE SELF-SEEKING
AND
WHO REJECT THE TRUTH
AND
FOLLOW EVIL,
THERE
WILL BE WRATH AND ANGER.
9
THERE WILL BE TROUBLE AND DISTRESS
FOR
EVERY HUMAN BEING WHO DOES EVIL:
FIRST
FOR THE JEW, THEN FOR THE GENTILE;
10
BUT GLORY AND HONOR AND PEACE
FOR
EVERYONE WHO DOES GOOD:
FIRST
FOR THE JEW, THEN FOR THE GENTILE.
11
FOR GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM.
12
ALL who Sin apart from the Law
Will
also Perish apart from the Law,
And
ALL who Sin under the Law
Will
be judged by the Law.
13
For it is not those who hear the Law
Who
are Righteous in God's sight,
But
it is those who Obey the Law
Who
will be Declared Righteous.
14
(Indeed, when Gentiles,
Who
do not have the Law,
Do
by Nature things required by the Law,
THEY
ARE A LAW FOR THEMSELVES,
EVEN
THOUGH THEY DO NOT HAVE THE LAW,
15
SINCE THEY SHOW
THAT
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW
ARE
WRITTEN ON THEIR HEARTS,
THEIR
CONSCIENCES ALSO BEARING WITNESS,
AND
THEIR THOUGHTS NOW ACCUSING,
NOW
DEFENDING THEM.)
16
THIS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE DAY
WHEN
GOD WILL JUDGE MEN'S SECRETS
THROUGH
JESUS CHRIST,
AS
MY GOSPEL DECLARES.
The
Jews And The Law
17
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew'
If
you rely on the Law
And
Brag about your relationship to God;
18
If you know His Will
And
approve of what is Superior
Because
you are Instructed by the Law;
19
If you are Convinced
That
you are Guide for the Blind,
A
Light for those who are in the Dark,
20
And Instructor of the Foolish,
A
Teacher of Infants,
Because
you have in the Law
The
Embodiment of Knowledge and Truth--
21
You, then, who teach others,
DO
YOU NOT TEACH YOURSELF?
You
who Preach against Stealing, do you Steal?
22
You who say that people should not Commit Adultery,
Do
you Commit Adultery?
You
who Abhor Idols, do you rob Temples?
23
You who brag about the Law,
Do
you Dishonor God by breaking the Law?
24
As it is written:
'GOD'S
NAME IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES
BECAUSE
OF YOU.'
25
Circumcision has Value if you Observe the Law,
But
if you Break the Law,
You
have become as though you had not been Circumcised.
26
If those who are Not Circumcised
Keep
the Law's Requirements,
Will
they not be Regarded as though they were Circumcised?
27
The one who is Not Circumcised Physically
And
yet Obeys the Law
WILL
CONDEMN YOU
Who
even though you have the Written Code and Circumcision,
ARE
A LAWBREAKER.
28
A MAN IS NOT A JEW IF HE IS ONLY ONE OUTWARDLY,
NOR IS CIRCUMCISION MERELY OUTWARD AND PHYSICAL.
29
NO, A MAN IS A JEW
IF
HE IS ONE INWARDLY;
AND
CIRCUMCISION IS CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART,
BY
THE SPIRIT
NOT
BY THE WRITTEN CODE.
SUCH
A MAN'S PRAISE IS NOT FROM MEN,
BUT
FROM GOD.
(Romans
2)
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