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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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 2 ISV</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="../">ISV</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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/romans/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God will Judge Everyone</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, you have no excuse—every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since 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>Now we know that God’s judgment against those who act like this is based on<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:2 Lit. is according to the">a</a></span> truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Or are you unaware of his rich kindness, forbearance, and patience, that it is God’s kindness that is leading you to repent?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, initially for Jews but also for Greeks as well, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>because God does not show partiality.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from 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 merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God’s sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively 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 what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>on that day when God, through Jesus the Messiah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:16 Or Christ">b</a></span> will judge people’s secrets according to my gospel.</p> <p class="heading">Who is a Jew?</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>As you forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? As you abhor idols, do you rob temples? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>As you boast about the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>As it is written, “God’s name is being blasphemed among the gentiles because of you.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:24 Cf. sa 52:5">c</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised. <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 requirements of the Law, his uncircumcision will be regarded as circumcision, won’t it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The man who is uncircumcised physically but who keeps the Law will condemn you who break the Law, even though you have the written Law<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:27 Lit. what is written">d</a></span> and circumcision. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, brought about by the Spirit, not by a written law.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="2:29 Lit. what is written">e</a></span> That person’s praise will come from God, not from people.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 2:2 Lit. <i>is according to the</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 2:16 Or <i>Christ</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 2:24 Cf. sa 52:5<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 2:27 Lit. <i>what is written</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 2:29 Lit. <i>what is written</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/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 width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" 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({}); 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