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Romans 2

1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judges: for in that in which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3And do you reckon this, O man, who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God? 4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5but according to your hardness and impenitent heart you treasure up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6who will render to every man according to his works: 7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: 8but to those who are factious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, 9tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; 10but glory and honor and peace to every man who works 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 Torah shall also perish without the Torah: and as many as have sinned under the Torah shall be judged by the Torah; 13for not the hearers of the Torah are just before God, but the doers of the Torah shall be justified; 14(for when Gentiles who do not have the Torah do by nature the things of the Torah, these, not having the Torah, are a law to themselves; 15in that they show the work of the Torah written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with it, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them); 16in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Yeshua Messiah. 17But if you bear the name of a Jew, and rest upon the Torah, and glory in God, 18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the Torah, 19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, 20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the Torah the form of knowledge and of the truth; 21you therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? you who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22you who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23you who glory in the Torah, through your transgression of the Torah do you dishonor God? 24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written. 25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the Torah: but if you are a transgressor of the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? 27and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the Torah, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the Torah? 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 of men, but of God.