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| 2:1 |
Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
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| 2:2 |
You say, "We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth."
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| 2:3 |
Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
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| 2:4 |
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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| 2:5 |
But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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| 2:6 |
For he will repay according to each one's deeds:
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| 2:7 |
to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
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| 2:8 |
while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
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| 2:9 |
There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
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| 2:10 |
but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
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| 2:11 |
For God shows no partiality.
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| 2:12 |
All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from 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 righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
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| 2:14 |
When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.
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| 2:15 |
They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them
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| 2:16 |
on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
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| 2:17 |
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God
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| 2:18 |
and know his will and determine what is best because you are instructed in the law,
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| 2:19 |
and if you are sure that you 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 children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,
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| 2:21 |
you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
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| 2:22 |
You that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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| 2:23 |
You that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
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| 2:24 |
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
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| 2:25 |
Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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| 2:26 |
So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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| 2:27 |
Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
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| 2:28 |
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
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| 2:29 |
Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart-- it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.
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