Romans 2:3-16

³So, you who say God should punish others for doing evil things yet you do evil things yourself, ◄you should certainly not think that you yourself will be able to escape from being punished by God!/do you think that you yourself will be able to escape from being punished by God?► RHQ

⁴And you should not say, “God is acting very tolerantly and patiently toward me, so I do not need to stop sinning DOU.” ◄You should realize that God is acting in a kind manner toward you in order to encourage you (sg) to turn away from your sinful behavior!/Do you not realize that God is acting in a kind manner toward you in order to encourage you (sg) to turn away from your sinful behavior?► RHQ

⁵But instead, by your stubbornly refusing to turn away from your sinful behavior DOU, you are causing MET God to punish you even more severely. He will do that at the time when he shows that he is angry and judges people fairly.

⁶God will pay back everyone according to what they deserve for what they have done.

⁷Specifically, some people, by continuing to doing good things, strive to be highly honored by God DOU and to receive a life that will not end. God will reward them by enabling them to live forever.

⁸But some people act in a selfish way and refuse to believe that what God says is true, and they do the things that God says are wrong. God will punish them very severely DOU, MTY.

⁹He will cause everyone who habitually does evil deeds to suffer greatly, with the result that they will become severely distressed DOU. This certainly will happen to the Jews who refuse to accept God's message, because God gave them the privilege to be his special people, but it will also happen to the non-Jews.

¹⁰But God will greatly reward spiritually MET, DOU every person who habitually does good deeds. He will certainly do this for the Jews because God chose them as his special people, but he will also do it for the non-Jews.

¹¹God will do this fairly, because people's status does not influence him.

¹²Although non-Jews do not have the laws that God gave to Moses, all non-Jews who sin will be eternally separated from God. He will not consider whether or not they knew the laws that he gave to Moses. And all the Jews who have sinned in spite of knowing the laws that God gave to Moses will also be punished { God will also punish them}. They will be punished for disobeying God's laws.

¹³It is right for them to be punished { God to punish them} because it is not those who merely know God's laws whom he considers to be righteous. On the contrary, it is only those who continually have obeyed all ◄of God's laws/of the laws that God gave to Moses► ◄whom God will consider righteous/whose record of sins God will erase►.

¹⁴Whenever the non-Jews, who do not have the laws God gave to Moses, naturally obey those laws, they prove that they have a law within their own minds, even though they do not have the laws God gave to Moses.

¹⁵They show that they know in their own minds what God commands in his laws MET, as each person in his very own conscience either accuses or excuses/defends himself concerning his own behavior.

¹⁶God will punish people at the time when he will judge them according to what they have thought and done. He will judge them even for the things that they have done secretly. He will judge people by authorizing Christ Jesus to judge them. This is what I tell people when I preach the gospel to them.