Romans 2:12-29 - God's Judgment And The Law

¹² For as many as have sinned without law will also be destroyed without law, and as many as have sinned in law will be judged by law. ¹³ For the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous. ¹⁴ For when the Gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these men, not having law, are a law to themselves. ¹⁵ Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, testifying of their conscience, and their thoughts amidst each other accusing or also defending them ¹⁶ in a day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my good-news.

¹⁷ Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know his will, and approve the things that are significant, being instructed out of the law. ¹⁹ And thou have confidence in thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the childlike, having in the law the essence of knowledge and truth, ²¹ thou therefore who teach another, do thou not teach thyself? Thou who preach not to steal, do thou steal? ²² Thou who say not to commit adultery, do thou commit adultery? Thou who abhor idols, do thou rob temples? ²³ Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law. ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, just as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision is indeed beneficial if thou perform law, but if thou are a transgressor of law, thy circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ If therefore a man of uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision? ²⁷ And the man of natural uncircumcision who fulfills the law, will judge thee, a transgressor of law through a document and circumcision. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew in what is visible, nor is circumcision in what is visible, in flesh, ²⁹ but he is a Jew in what is hidden, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit not a document, whose praise is not from men but from God.