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Romans 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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God’s Righteous Judgment

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:1 - Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:2 - We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:3 - Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:4 - Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:5 - But because of 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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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:6 - He will render to each one according to his works:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:7 - to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:8 - but for those who are self-seeking[fn] and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:9 - There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:10 - but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:11 - For God shows no partiality.

God’s Judgment and the Law

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:12 - For 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:13 - For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:14 - For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:15 - They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:16 - on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:17 - But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:18 - and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:19 - and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:20 - an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:21 - you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:22 - You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:23 - You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:24 - For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:26 - So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded[fn] as circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - Then he who is physically[fn] uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code[fn] and circumcision but break the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:28 - For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:29 - But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.
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