Thematic Bible




Romans 2:1 (show verse)

Therefore you are inexcusable, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for in judging another you condemn yourself; you, the judge, do the very same things yourself.

Romans 2:2 (show verse)

'We know the doom of God falls justly upon those who practise such vices.'

Romans 2:3 (show verse)

Very well; and do you imagine you will escape God's doom, O man, you who judge those who practise such vices and do the same yourself?

Romans 2:4 (show verse)

Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

Romans 2:5 (show verse)

In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

Romans 2:6 (show verse)

For he will render to everyone according to what he has done,

Romans 2:7 (show verse)

eternal life to those who by patiently doing good aim at glory, honour, and immortality,

Romans 2:8 (show verse)

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness ??9 anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,

Romans 2:9 (show verse)

Romans 2:10 (show verse)

but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well.

Romans 2:11 (show verse)

There is no partiality about God.

Romans 2:12 (show verse)

All who sin outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be condemned by the Law.

Romans 2:13 (show verse)

For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just in the eyes of God, it is those who obey the Law who will be acquitted,

Romans 2:14 (show verse)

[Move vss 14,15 to follow vs 16] (When Gentiles who have no law obey instinctively the Law's requirements, they are a law to themselves, even though they have no law;

Romans 2:15 (show verse)

they exhibit the effect of the Law written on their hearts, their conscience bears them witness, as their moral convictions accuse or it may be defend them.)

Romans 2:16 (show verse)

on the day when God judges the secret things of men, as my gospel holds, by Jesus Christ.

Romans 2:17 (show verse)

If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

Romans 2:18 (show verse)

understanding his will, and with a sense of what is vital in religion; if you are instructed by the Law

Romans 2:19 (show verse)

and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls,

Romans 2:20 (show verse)

a tutor for the foolish, a teacher of the simple, because in the Law you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth ??21 well then, do you ever teach yourself, you teacher of other people? You preach against stealing; do you steal?

Romans 2:21 (show verse)

Romans 2:22 (show verse)

You forbid adultery; do you commit adultery? You detest idols; do you rob temples?

Romans 2:23 (show verse)

You pride yourself on the Law; do you dishonour God by your breaches of the Law?

Romans 2:24 (show verse)

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

Romans 2:25 (show verse)

Circumcision is certainly of use, provided you keep the Law; but if you are a breaker of the Law, then your circumcision is turned into uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26 (show verse)

(If then the uncircumcised observe the requirements of the Law, shall not their uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision?

Romans 2:27 (show verse)

And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised and who fulfil the Law, judge you who are a breaker of the Law for all your written code and circumcision?)

Romans 2:28 (show verse)

He is no Jew who is merely a Jew outwardly, nor is circumcision something outward in the flesh;

Romans 2:29 (show verse)

he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual not literal ??praised by God, not by man.