Romans 2:1-16 - The Righteous And Impartial Judgment Of God

¹ Therefore you have nothing to say in your own defense, whoever you are who set yourself up as a judge. In judging others you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do the very same things. ² And we know that God's judgment falls unerringly upon those who do them. ³ You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them-do you suppose that you of all men will escape God's judgment? ⁴ Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realizing that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? ⁵ Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself Wrath on the 'Day of Wrath,' when God's justice as a judge will be revealed; ⁶ For 'he will give to every man what his actions deserve.' ⁷ To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life; ⁸ While as to those who are factious, and disobedient to Truth but obedient to Evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair, ⁹ Will fall upon every human being who persists in wrong-doing- -upon the Jew first, but also upon the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory, honor, and peace for every one who does right-for the Jew first, but also for the Greek, ¹¹ Since God shows no partiality.

¹² All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law. ¹³ It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous. ¹⁴ When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves; ¹⁵ For they show the demands of the Law written upon their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self- defense-- ¹⁶ On the day when God passes judgment on men's inmost lives, as the Good News that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus.