Romans 2

¹ 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.

² We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

³ 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?

⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? Fathers

⁵ 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, Fathers

⁶ who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” CCC

⁷ to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; CCC · Fathers

⁸ but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

⁹ oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰ But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

¹² For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³ For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹⁴ (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, CCC

¹⁵ 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) CCC

¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ. CCC

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 out of 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 of the truth.

²¹ You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

²² You who say a man shouldn’t 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. CCC

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, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

²⁷ Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, 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, neither 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.

¹ WWherefore 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.

² For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.

³ 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?

⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance? Fathers

⁵ 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: Fathers

⁶ Who will render to every man according to his works. CCC

⁷ To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: CCC · Fathers

⁸ But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.

⁹ Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

¹⁰ But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹ For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹² 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.

¹³ For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴ 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. CCC

¹⁵ 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, CCC

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. CCC

¹⁷ But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸ And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:

¹⁹ Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

²¹ Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

²² Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

²³ Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

²⁴ (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) CCC

²⁵ Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ 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?

²⁸ For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

²⁹ 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.