23Gk. the other,
2: 2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practice such things.
2: 3 And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practice such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
2: 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
2: 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2: 6 who will render to every man according to his works:
2: 7 to them that by 24patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, shall be eternal life:
24Or, stedfastness (American, steadfastness)
2: 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
2: 9 tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
2: 10 but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
2: 11 for there is no respect of persons with God.
2: 12 For as many as 25have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
25Gk. sinned (both times)
2: 13 for not the hearers of the law are 26just before God, but the doers of the law shall be 27justified;
26Or, righteous
27Or, accounted righteous; and so elsewhere.
2: 14 (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves;
2: 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and 28their 29thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them);
28Or, their thoughts accusing or else excusing them one with another);
29Or, reasonings 2Co 10:5.
2: 16 in the day when God 30shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
30Or, judgeth
2: 17 But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,
2: 18 and knowest 31his will, and 32approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
31Or, the Will,
32Or, dost distinguish the things that differ,
2: 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
2: 20 33a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
33Or, an instructor
2: 21 thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
2: 22 thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorest idols, dost thou rob temples?
2: 23 thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?
2: 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, 34even as it is written.
34Is 52:5.
2: 25 For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
2: 26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
2: 27 and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
2: 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:
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 of men, but of God.
