Thematic Bible

Romans 2:1

Wherefore, you are without excuse, O man, every one who judges; for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

Romans 2:2

Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those practicing such things.

Romans 2:3

And do you reckon this, O man, who judge those who practice such things, and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Romans 2:4

Or, do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading you to repentance?

Romans 2:5

but, after your hardness and impenitent heart, you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 2:6

Who will render to every man according to his works;

Romans 2:7

to those who, by patience in well-doing, are seeking for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life;

Romans 2:8

but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

Romans 2:9

tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

Romans 2:10

but glory and honor and peace to every one who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

Romans 2:11

for there is no respect of persons with God;

Romans 2:12

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

Romans 2:13

for not the hearers of law are righteous before God, but the doers shall be justified;

Romans 2:14

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

Romans 2:15

who, indeed, show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with it, and between one another their thoughts accusing or even excusing them;)

Romans 2:16

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Gospel, through Jesus Christ,

Romans 2:17

But, if you are called a Jew, and are resting upon the law, and are boasting in God,

Romans 2:18

and understand His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Romans 2:19

and have become confident that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness,

Romans 2:20

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

Romans 2:21

you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that men should not steal, do you steal?

Romans 2:22

You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 2:23

You who boast in law, do you dishonor God through your transgression of the law?

Romans 2:24

For the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles, because of you, as it has been written.

Romans 2:25

For circumcision, indeed, profits, if you do the law; but, if you are transgressors of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Romans 2:26

If, therefore, the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision he reckoned for circumcision?

Romans 2:27

And shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, with the letter and circumcision, to be a transgressor of the law?

Romans 2:28

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in flesh;

Romans 2:29

but he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.