[1] Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.
[2] And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.
[3] And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
[4] Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
[5] but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
[6] who will render to every man according to his works:
[7] to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
[8] but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
[9] tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;
[10] but glory and honour and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
[11] for there is no respect of persons with God.
[12] For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law;
[13] for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:
[14] for when Gentiles which have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law unto themselves;
[15] in that they shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them;
[16] in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
[17] But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,
[18] and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
[19] and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
[20] a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;
[21] thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
[22] thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?
[23] thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?
[24] For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.
[25] For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.
[26] If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?
[27] and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
[28] For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
[29] but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.