God’s Righteous Judgement
1 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are who judges. For in whatever you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who are judging are doing the same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 Do you think, O man who judges those who do such things yet do the same things, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, ignorant of the fact that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?
5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and the righteous judgment of God. 6 God “will pay back to everyone according to their works.” a 7 To those who through perseverance in well-doing seek the glory, honor, and incorruptibility of eternal life, 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath, indignation, 9 oppression, and anguish on the soul of every man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 10 But glory, honor, and peace will go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. All who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these people, not having the law, are a law unto themselves, 15 in that they are showing the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves either accusing or excusing them) 16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
The Jews and the law
17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God, 18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed from the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth. 21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law? 24 For “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles,” because of you, just as it is written.
25 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. 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, will his uncircumcision not be accounted as circumcision? 27 Will the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, not judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward, in the flesh, 29 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.