Romans 2:6-15

⁶for he will give to everyone what their actions deserve.

⁷To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honour, and all that is imperishable, he will give immortal life;

⁸while as to those who are factious, and disobedient to truth but obedient to evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,

⁹will fall on every human being who persists in wrong-doing — on the Jew first, but also on the Greek.

¹⁰But there will be glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does right — for the Jew first, but also for the Greek,

¹¹since God shows no partiality.

¹²All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law.

¹³It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

¹⁴When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves;

¹⁵for they show the demands of the Law written on their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self-defence —