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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 ESV</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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God’s Righteous Judgment</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He will render to each one according to his works: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but for those who are self-seeking<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or contentious">a</a></sup></span> and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For God shows no partiality.</p> <p class="heading">God’s Judgment and the Law</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or counted">b</a></sup></span> as circumcision? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then he who is physically<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or is by nature">c</a></sup></span> uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the letter">d</a></sup></span> and circumcision but break the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>contentious</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Or <i>counted</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">is</span> by nature</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> letter</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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