Judgment

1Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.

2Further, we know that God's judgment against those who practice such things ³⁵is according to truth.

3So then, you there, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God's judgment? ³⁶

4Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance? ³⁷

5Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God's wrath and revelation and righteous judgment, ³⁸

6who will repay each one according to his works: ³⁹

7to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life; ⁴⁰

8but to those who, due to self-seeking, ⁴¹are actually disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath,

9tribulation and anguish, upon every human soul who works at the evil, ⁴²whether Jew (first) or Greek;

10but glory, honor and peace to everyone who works the good, whether Jew (first) or Greek. ⁴³

11Now there is no favoritism with God.

12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by law. ⁴⁴

13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified ⁴⁵

14(indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves;

15who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, ⁴⁶and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing)

16in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people's secrets by Jesus Christ. ⁴⁷

Law

17Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God,

18and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law.

19Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,

20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ⁴⁸

21You then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

22You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law?

24For, just as it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ⁴⁹

Circumcision

25Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27And will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who are a transgressor of the Law?

28Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something outward in the flesh;

29but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God. ⁵⁰