{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:38:08.842Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are that judge: for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do the same things."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And think you this, O man, that judge them which do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Who will render to every man according to his deeds:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But glory, honor, and peace, to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For there is no respect of persons with God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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 to themselves:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And know his will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You therefore which teach another, teach you not yourself? you that preach a man should not steal, do you steal?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you God?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 2 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Romans 2](https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}