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Romans 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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God’s Righteous Judgment
The Fairness of God’s Judgment

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:1 - Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:2 - But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:3 - And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:4 - Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:5 - But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:6 - who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:7 - eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:8 - but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:9 - tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:10 - but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:11 - For there is no partiality with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:12 - For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:13 - (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:14 - for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:15 - who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:16 - in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:17 - Indeed[fn] you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:18 - and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:19 - and are confident 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 babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:21 - You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:22 - You who say, “Do 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 make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:24 - For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,”[fn] as it is written.
Circumcision of No Avail

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:25 - For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:26 - Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:27 - And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:28 - For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:29 - 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.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12
NU-Text reads But if.
Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22
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