The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Romans 02
1 Therefore you are without excuse, O
man, whoever you are who judge. For in
that which you judge another, you
condemnyourself. For you who judge
practice the same things.
2 We know that the judgment of God is
according to truth against those who
practice such things.
3 Do 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 Or do you despise the riches of his
goodness, forbearance, and patience, not
knowing that the goodness of God leads
you to repentance?
5 But 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 who “will pay back to everyone according
to their works:”*
7 to those who by perseverance in welldoing
seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility,
eternal life;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and
don’t obey the truth, but obeyunrighteousness,
will be wrath, indignation,
9 oppression, and anguish on every soul
of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every
man who does good, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without
the law will also perish without the law. As
many as have sinned under the law will be
judged by the law.
13 For 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 in 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 in the day when God will judge the
secrets of men, according to my Good News,
by Jesus Christ.
17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew,
rest on the law, glory in God,
18 know his will, and approve the things
that are excellent, being instructed out of
the law,
19 and are confident that you yourself
are a guide ofthe blind, a lightto 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 You therefore who teach another,
don’t you teach yourself? You who preach
that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit
adultery, do you commit adultery? You
who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor
God by disobeying the law?
24 For “the name of God is blasphemed
among the Gentiles because of
you,” * just as it is written.
25 For 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 If therefore the uncircumcised keep
the ordinances of the law, won’t his
uncircumcision be accounted as
circumcision?
27 Won’t those who are physically
uncircumcised, but fulfill the
law, judge you, who with the
letter and circumcision are a
transgressor of the law?
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly,
neither is that circumcision which
is outward in the flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly,
and circumcision is that ofthe heart, in the
spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not
from men, but from God.