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For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He will render to each one according to his works:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For there is no partiality with God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For God shows no partiality.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if you bear the name "Jew " and rely upon the Law and boast in God,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. 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