Romans 2:1–16 · BSB
2:1
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
2:2
And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
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2:3
So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
2:4
Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
2:5
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
2:6
God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
2:7
To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
2:8
But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
2:9
There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;
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but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek.
2:11
For God does not show favoritism.
2:12
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
2:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.
2:14
Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
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So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them
2:16
on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.
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