{"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/kjv/romans/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T01:04:34.317Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"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 thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do 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 unto thyself 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 honour and immortality, eternal life:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh 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 <i>are</i> 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 unto themselves:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and <i>their</i> 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, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And knowest <i>his</i> will, and approvest the things that are more 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 which are in darkness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou therefore which 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 commit sacrilege?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou 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 verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy 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 fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither <i>is that</i> circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"But he <i>is</i> a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision <i>is that</i> of the heart, in the spirit, <i>and</i> not in the letter; whose praise <i>is</i> not of men, but of God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 2 (KJV)","markdown":"[Romans 2](https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/romans/2 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}