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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.

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For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.

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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?

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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?

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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.

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Who will render to every man according to his works.

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To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

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But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

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Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

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But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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For there is no respect of persons with God.

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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.

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For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

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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:

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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,

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In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

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But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

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And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,

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Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

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Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:

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Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

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Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

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(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

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Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

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If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

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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?

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For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:

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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.

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About Romans 2

God’s judgment is impartial: self-righteous Jews as well as Gentiles stand guilty; true circumcision is inward, ‘of the heart, by the Spirit,’ not merely an external mark.

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Author
Paul
Written
AD 57
Location
Corinth (addressed to believers in Rome)
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Pauline communities in Rome

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