God’s Righteous Judgment

¹Therefore you have no excuse, you humans who judge. For in judging another, you condemn yourself because you who judge practice the same things.

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

³But do you think, as a human who judges those who practice such things, but still does them, that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁴Or do you disdain the riches of ʜɪꜱ kindness, self-restraint, and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

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

⁶who “will repay to each person according to their deeds.”[#Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12]

⁷To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, ʜᴇ will give eternal life.

⁸But to those who are self-seeking and are unpersuaded by the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

⁹There will be affliction and distress for every human soul who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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

¹¹For there is no favoritism with God.

¹²For 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.

¹³For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

¹⁴Indeed, when ethnic groups who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they don’t have the law.

¹⁵They 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

¹⁶on the day when God will judge the secrets of humans, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.

The Jews and the Law

¹⁷Indeed if you call yourself a Jew, if you rest on the law and boast in God,

¹⁸if you know ʜɪs will and approve the superior things, being instructed from the law,

¹⁹and are convinced that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,

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

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

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

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed among the ethnic groups because of y’all.” just as it is written.[#Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22]

²⁵Circumcision is of value if you practice the law, but if you are a violator of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁶So then, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, won’t their uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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

²⁸For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is circumcision merely outward in the flesh;

²⁹but a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter. Their praise is not from humans, but from God.