Romans, 2
The Jews are censured, who make their boast of the law and keep it not. He declares who are the true Jews.
[1] Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest. •
[2] For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.
[3] And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
[4] Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? •
[5] But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God: •
[6] Who will render to every man according to his works. •
[7] To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
[8] But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
[9] Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
[10] But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. •
[11] For there is no respect of persons with God. •
[12] For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. •
[13] For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified. •
[14] For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves. •
[15] Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another, •
[16] In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. •
[17] But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, •
[18] And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:
[19] Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
[20] An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
[21] Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. •
[22] Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: •
[23] Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.
[24] (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) •
[25] Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. •
[26] If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? •
[27] And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? •
[28] For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. •
[29] But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.