{"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/web/romans/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:55:55.606Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":29},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"who |will pay back to everyone according to their works:|"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For there is no partiality with God."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"(for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For |the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,| just as it is written."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 2 (WEB)","markdown":"[Romans 2](https://primebible.com/web/romans/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/romans/2 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}