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2:1 |
Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
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2:2 |
And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
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2:3 |
But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
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2:4 |
Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
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2:5 |
But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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2:6 |
who will render to each person according to his deeds:
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2:7 |
to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
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2:8 |
but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
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2:9 |
There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
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2:10 |
but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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2:11 |
For there is no partiality with God.
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2:12 |
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
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2:13 |
for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
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2:14 |
For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
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2:15 |
in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
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2:16 |
on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
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2:17 |
But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law and boast in God,
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2:18 |
and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,
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2:19 |
and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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2:20 |
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
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2:21 |
you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?
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2:22 |
You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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2:23 |
You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?
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2:24 |
For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
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2:25 |
For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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2:26 |
So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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2:27 |
And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?
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2:28 |
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
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2:29 |
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.
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