Romans 2:5-16

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath^(A) for yourself in the day of wrath,^(B) when God’s righteous judgment is revealed. ⁶ He will repay each one according to his works:^{(C)[a] 7} eternal life^(D) to those who by persistence in doing good^(E) seek glory, honor,^(F) and immortality;^{(G) 8} but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking^(H) and disobey the truth^(I) but are obeying unrighteousness; ⁹ affliction and distress^(J) for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;^{(K) 10} but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. ¹¹ There is no favoritism with God.^(L)

¹² All those who sinned without the law^(M) will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For the hearers of the law^(N) are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.^{[b] 14} So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively^(O) do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. ¹⁵ They show that the work of the law^[c] is written on their hearts.^(P) Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them^{[d] 16} on the day when God judges^(Q) what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.^(R)