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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Romans 2 ERV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > Romans 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/1.htm" title="Romans 1">◄</a> Romans 2 <a href="../romans/3.htm" title="Romans 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><a name="1" id="1"></a><p class="hdg">God's Righteous Judgment<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/4.htm">Genesis 4:1-7</a>; <a href="../jude/1.htm#3">Jude 1:3-16</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>who will render to every man according to his works: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but glory and honour and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>for there is no respect of persons with God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.</p> <p class="hdg">The Jews and the Law</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>but he is a Jew, which 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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/romans/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhsh.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>