| 1 ¶ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
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| 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
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| 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
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| 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
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| 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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| 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
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| 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
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| 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
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| 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;1
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| 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:2
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| 11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
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| 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
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| 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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| 14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
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| 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience3 also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean4 while accusing or else excusing one another;)
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| 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
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| 17 ¶ Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
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| 18 And knowest his will, and approvest5 the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
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| 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
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| 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
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| 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
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| 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
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| 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
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| 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
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| 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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| 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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| 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
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| 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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| 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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