Thematic Bible
Romans 2:1 (show verse)
Therefore, any one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.
Romans 2:2 (show verse)
We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.
Romans 2:3 (show verse)
Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?
Romans 2:4 (show verse)
Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
Romans 2:5 (show verse)
But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.
Romans 2:6 (show verse)
He will repay each one according to his works:
Romans 2:7 (show verse)
eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;
Romans 2:8 (show verse)
but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;
Romans 2:9 (show verse)
affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;
Romans 2:10 (show verse)
but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek.
Romans 2:11 (show verse)
There is no favoritism with God.
Romans 2:12 (show verse)
All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 2:13 (show verse)
For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.
Romans 2:14 (show verse)
So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law.
Romans 2:15 (show verse)
They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them
Romans 2:16 (show verse)
on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
Romans 2:17 (show verse)
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God,
Romans 2:18 (show verse)
know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,
Romans 2:19 (show verse)
and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,
Romans 2:20 (show verse)
an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law—
Romans 2:21 (show verse)
you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal”—do you steal?
Romans 2:22 (show verse)
You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?
Romans 2:23 (show verse)
You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
Romans 2:24 (show verse)
For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.
Romans 2:25 (show verse)
For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
Romans 2:26 (show verse)
Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?
Romans 2:27 (show verse)
A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision.
Romans 2:28 (show verse)
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.
Romans 2:29 (show verse)
On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—by the Spirit, not the letter. That man’s praise is not from men but from God.