1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who judges; for in the matter in which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things.
3 And do you suppose this, O man, you who judge those who practice such things and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6 who will render to each according to his works:
7 to those who by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;
8 but to those who are contentious and disobey the truth but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 tribulation and distress upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;
10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as sinned without law will also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law will be judged by law;
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.
14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with them, and their reasonings accusing or else excusing one another between themselves,
16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.
17 Look, you are named a Jew, and rest upon the law, and boast in God,
18 and know his will, and approve the things that differ, being instructed from the law,
19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,
20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one should not steal, do you steal?
22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 If, then, the uncircumcision keeps the righteous ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision?
27 And the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, will judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law.
28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;
29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.