{"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/drb/romans/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T00:55:43.562Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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? "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Who will render to every man according to his works. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For there is no respect of persons with God. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"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, 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: "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"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, "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law, "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest: "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"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? "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh: "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"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. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 2 (DRB)","markdown":"[Romans 2](https://primebible.com/drb/romans/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/romans/2 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}