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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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God's Judgment</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.1" class="v45_2_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Do you, my friend, pass judgment on others? You have no excuse at all, whoever you are. For when you judge others and then do the same things which they do, you condemn yourself. </span><span class="v45_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.2" class="v45_2_2">2</span>We know that God is right when he judges the people who do such things as these. </span><span class="v45_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.3" class="v45_2_3">3</span>But you, my friend, do those very things for which you pass judgment on others! Do you think you will escape God's judgment? </span><span class="v45_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.4" class="v45_2_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Or perhaps you despise his great kindness, tolerance, and patience. Surely you know that God is kind, because he is trying to lead you to repent. </span><span class="v45_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.5" class="v45_2_5">5</span>But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed. </span><span class="v45_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.6" class="v45_2_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For God will reward each of us according to what we have done. </span><span class="v45_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.7" class="v45_2_7">7</span>Some people keep on doing good, and seek glory, honor, and immortal life; to them God will give eternal life. </span><span class="v45_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.8" class="v45_2_8">8</span>Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury. </span><span class="v45_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.9" class="v45_2_9">9</span>There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles. </span><span class="v45_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.10" class="v45_2_10">10</span>But God will give glory, honor, and peace to all who do what is good, to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles. </span><span class="v45_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.11" class="v45_2_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For God judges everyone by the same standard.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.12" class="v45_2_12">12</span>The Gentiles do not have the Law of Moses; they sin and are lost apart from the Law. The Jews have the Law; they sin and are judged by the Law. </span><span class="v45_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.13" class="v45_2_13">13</span>For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands. </span><span class="v45_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.14" class="v45_2_14">14</span>The Gentiles do not have the Law; but whenever they do by instinct what the Law commands, they are their own law, even though they do not have the Law. </span><span class="v45_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.15" class="v45_2_15">15</span>Their conduct shows that what the Law commands is written in their hearts. Their consciences also show that this is true, since their thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them. </span><span class="v45_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.16" class="v45_2_16">16</span>And so, according to the Good News I preach, this is how it will be on that Day when God through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Jews and the Law</h3><p class="par"><span class="v45_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.17" class="v45_2_17">17</span>What about you? You call yourself a Jew; you depend on the Law and boast about God; </span><span class="v45_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.18" class="v45_2_18">18</span>you know what God wants you to do, and you have learned from the Law to choose what is right; </span><span class="v45_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.19" class="v45_2_19">19</span>you are sure that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness, </span><span class="v45_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.20" class="v45_2_20">20</span>an instructor for the foolish, and a teacher for the ignorant. You are certain that in the Law you have the full content of knowledge and of truth. </span><span class="v45_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.21" class="v45_2_21">21</span>You teach others—why don't you teach yourself? You preach, “Do not steal”—but do you yourself steal? </span><span class="v45_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.22" class="v45_2_22">22</span>You say, “Do not commit adultery”—but do you commit adultery? You detest idols—but do you rob temples? </span><span class="v45_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.23" class="v45_2_23">23</span>You boast about having God's law—but do you bring shame on God by breaking his law? </span><span class="v45_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.24" class="v45_2_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The scripture says, “Because of you Jews, the Gentiles speak evil of God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v45_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.25" class="v45_2_25">25</span>If you obey the Law, your circumcision is of value; but if you disobey the Law, you might as well never have been circumcised. </span><span class="v45_2_26"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.26" class="v45_2_26">26</span>If the Gentile, who is not circumcised, obeys the commands of the Law, will not God regard him as though he were circumcised? </span><span class="v45_2_27"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.27" class="v45_2_27">27</span>And so you Jews will be condemned by the Gentiles because you break the Law, even though you have it written down and are circumcised; but they obey the Law, even though they are not physically circumcised. </span><span class="v45_2_28"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.28" class="v45_2_28">28</span>After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing. </span><span class="v45_2_29"><span class="reftext" id="Rom.2.29" class="v45_2_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rom.2.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Rather, the real Jew is the person who is a Jew on the inside, that is, whose heart has been circumcised, and this is the work of God's Spirit, not of the written Law. Such a person receives praise from God, not from human beings.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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