Thematic Bible




Romans 2:1 (show verse)

You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things.

Romans 2:2 (show verse)

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Romans 2:3 (show verse)

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

Romans 2:4 (show verse)

Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

Romans 2:5 (show verse)

In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed.

Romans 2:6 (show verse)

For He will render to every man according to his works;

Romans 2:7 (show verse)

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

Romans 2:8 (show verse)

but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness.

Romans 2:9 (show verse)

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

Romans 2:10 (show verse)

but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

Romans 2:11 (show verse)

For there is no partiality with God.

Romans 2:12 (show verse)

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

Romans 2:13 (show verse)

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

Romans 2:14 (show verse)

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

Romans 2:15 (show verse)

For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them,

Romans 2:16 (show verse)

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

Romans 2:17 (show verse)

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

Romans 2:18 (show verse)

and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law,

Romans 2:19 (show verse)

and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

Romans 2:20 (show verse)

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth??ell then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself?

Romans 2:21 (show verse)

You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft?

Romans 2:22 (show verse)

You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples?

Romans 2:23 (show verse)

You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law?

Romans 2:24 (show verse)

For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says.

Romans 2:25 (show verse)

Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26 (show verse)

So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision.

Romans 2:27 (show verse)

And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

Romans 2:28 (show verse)

For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh;

Romans 2:29 (show verse)

but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart??ircumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.