Romans 2:4-22

⁴or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? — not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

⁵but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁶who shall render to each according to his works;

⁷to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility — life age-during;

⁸and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness — indignation and wrath,

⁹tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

¹⁰and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

¹¹For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

¹²for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

¹³for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

¹⁴For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law — to themselves are a law;

¹⁵who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

¹⁶in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

¹⁷Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

¹⁸and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

²⁰an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

²²thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?