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Romans 2
The Righteous Judgment of God
1 # 2 Sam 12.5–7; Mt 7.1, 2; Rom 1.20 Therefore you are without excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others, for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth. 3Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? 4#Ex 34.6; Rom 3.25; 11.22; Eph 1.7; 2.7; 2 Pet 3.9Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5#Deut 32.34; Jude 6But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6#Mt 16.27; 1 Cor 3.8; 2 Cor 5.10He will repay according to each one’s deeds: 7to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life, 8#Gal 5.20; 2 Thess 2.12while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury. 9#1 Pet 4.17There will be affliction and distress for everyone who does evil, both the Jew first and the Greek, 10but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, both the Jew first and the Greek. 11#Deut 10.17; Gal 2.6; Eph 6.9For God shows no partiality.
12All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged in accordance with the law. 13#Jas 1.22, 23, 25For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14When gentiles, who do not possess the law, by nature do#2.14 Or law by nature, do what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. 15They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, as their own conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them 16#Eccl 12.14; Acts 10.42; 1 Cor 4.5; 1 Tim 1.11on the day when, according to my gospel, God through Christ Jesus judges the secret thoughts of all.
The Jews and the Law
17 # v 23 ; Mic 3.11; Rom 9.4But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God 18and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20#Rom 6.17; 2 Tim 1.13a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth, 21#Mt 23.3, 4you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24#Isa 52.5For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed#2.24 Or despised among the gentiles because of you.”
25 # Gal 5.3 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law. 28#Mt 3.9; Jn 8.39; Rom 9.6; Gal 6.15For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical. 29#2 Cor 10.18; Col 2.11; 1 Pet 3.4Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person receives praise not from humans but from God.

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