Romans 2:4-22

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgement of God,

⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

⁸but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

⁹oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰But glory, honour, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹²For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts amongst themselves accusing or else excusing them)

¹⁶in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

¹⁸know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²¹You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

²²You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?