{"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/erv/romans/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:15:11.000Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who will render to every man according to his works:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be 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 man 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 as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of 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, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 2 (ERV)","markdown":"[Romans 2](https://primebible.com/erv/romans/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/romans/2 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}