Romans 2

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

You Who Know More Truth And Judge Others By It Are Also Without Excuse

2 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what^[a] you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things! ² And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon^[b] the ones practicing such things.

Do You Think You Will Escape God’s Judgment When You Do The Same Things?

³ But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, ⁶ Who will render to each one according to his works— ⁷ to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life; ⁸ but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest^[c], there will be wrath and fury.

There Is No Respect of Persons With God Regarding Sin And Judgment

⁹ There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person^[d] committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹ For there is no respect-of-persons with God. ¹² For all who sinned without-Law will also perish without-Law, and all who sinned under^[e] the Law will be judged by the Law. ¹³ For not the hearers of law^[f] are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be declared-righteous.

For Gentiles Will Be Judged By Their Own Standards Insofar As They Agree With God’s

¹⁴ For whenever Gentiles, the ones not having the Law, are doing by nature the things of the Law, these ones not having the Law are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ who are demonstrating^[g] the work of the Law written in their hearts— their conscience bearing co-witness and their thoughts accusing or even defending between one another ¹⁶ on the day when God judges the hidden things of people according to my good-news, through Christ Jesus.

And Jews Will Be Judged By The Law They Rely Upon

¹⁷ But if you call-yourself a Jew, and rely upon the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things mattering^[h]— being instructed out of the Law— ¹⁹ and are confident as to yourself that you are a guide of blind ones, a light of the ones in darkness, ²⁰ a corrector of foolish ones, a teacher of children, one having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the Law, ²¹ then— the one teaching another, are you not teaching yourself ? The one proclaiming not to steal, do you steal? ²² The one saying not to commit-adultery, do you commit-adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob-temples?

Their Transgression of The Law Dishonors God

²³ You who are boasting in the Law are dishonoring God through transgression of the Law. ²⁴ For “the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you”, just as it has been written [in Isa 52:5].

Circumcision Will Not Help Transgressors

²⁵ For circumcision profits if you practice the Law— but if you are a transgressor of the Law your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised one keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcised one by nature who is fulfilling the Law will judge you, the transgressor of the Law with the letter^[i] and circumcision! ²⁸ For the Jew in the visible thing is not a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the visible^[j] thing in the flesh circumcision, ²⁹ but the Jew in the hidden thing is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, by^[k] the Spirit not the letter— whose praise is not from people, but from God.