¹Therefore 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 practise the same things .

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

³Do you think this , O man who judges those who practise such things , and do the same , that you will escape the judgement of God ?

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

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath , revelation, and of the righteous judgement of God ,

⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works :”[#Psalms 62:12; Proverbs 24:12]

⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory , honour , and incorruptibility, eternal life ;

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

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

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

¹¹For there is no partiality with God .

¹²For 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 .

¹³For 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 ,

¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts , their conscience testifying with them , and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them )

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

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew , rest on the law , glory in God ,

¹⁸know his will , and approve the things that are excellent , being instructed out of the law ,

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind , a light to those who are in darkness ,

²⁰a corrector of the foolish , a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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

²²You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery , do you commit adultery ? You who abhor idols , do you rob temples ?

²³You who glory in the law , do you dishonour God by disobeying the law ?

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles because of you ,” just as it is written .[#Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22]

²⁵For 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.

²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law , won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision ?

²⁷Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfil the law , judge you , who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law ?

²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly , neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh ;

²⁹but 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 .