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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 BLB</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="../">BLB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/romans/2.htm" width="100%" height="32" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Berean Literal Bible</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">God's Righteous Judgment<br /><span class="cross">(Genesis 4:1-7; Jude 1:3-16)</span></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, each one who is judging. For in that which you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, for you, the <i>one</i> judging, do the same things. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But we know that the judgment of God upon those practicing such things is according to truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Now do you suppose this, O man, the <i>one</i> judging those practicing such things and doing them <i>yourself</i>, that you will escape the judgment of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up to yourself wrath in <i>the</i> day of wrath and revelation of <i>the</i> righteous judgement of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>who “will give to each according to his works,”<span class="fn"><a href="#fna" title="Psalm 62:12">a</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>to those who indeed with endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but to those of self-interest and disobeying the truth, but being persuaded about unrighteousness, wrath and anger; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>tribulation and distress upon every soul of man working evil, both of Jewish first, and also of Greek; <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but glory and honor and peace to everyone doing good, both to Jewish first, and to Greek. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For there is no partiality 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 <i>the</i> Law also will perish without <i>the</i> Law; and as many as have sinned in <i>the</i> Law will be judged by <i>the</i> Law, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>for not the hearers of <i>the</i> Law <i>are</i> righteous with God; but the doers of <i>the</i> Law will be justified. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For when Gentiles, not having <i>the</i> Law, do by nature the things of the Law, these not having <i>the</i> Law are a law to themselves, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>who show the work of the Law, written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness, and the thoughts between one another accusing or also defending <i>them</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>on that day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel, by Christ Jesus. </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 you are called a Jew and rely on <i>the</i> Law and boast in God, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and you know <i>His</i> will and approve the things being superior, being instructed out of the Law, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and you are persuaded <i>that</i> you yourself are a guide of <i>the</i> blind, a light to those in darkness, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>an instructor of <i>the</i> foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth— <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>then <i>you</i> teaching another, do you do not teach yourself? You preaching not to steal, do you steal? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You abhorring idols, do you rob temples? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>As it has been written: “For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fnb" title="Isaiah 52:5">b</a></span> </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For circumcision profits if you do <i>the</i> Law; but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Therefore if the uncircumcision keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the Law, will judge you who with <i>the</i> letter and circumcision <i>are</i> a transgressor of Law. </p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For the <i>one</i> on the outside a Jew is not, neither <i>that</i> on the outside in flesh <i>is</i> circumcision. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But he who <i>is</i> a Jew <i>is one</i> on the inside; and circumcision <i>is</i> of heart, in spirit, not in letter, of whom the praise <i>is</i> not of men, but of God.<A name="fn"><br /><br /></p><A name="fna"></a><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnote">Psalm 62:12</span><br /><A name="fnb"></a><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnote">Isaiah 52:5</span><br /><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible<br /><a href="//berean.bible">www.Berean.Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="//literalbible.com">Berean Literal Bible (BLB)</a><br />© 2016 by <a href="//biblehub.com">Bible Hub</a> and <a href="//berean.bible">Berean.Bible</a><br />Used by Permission. 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