Romani 2
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
I Giudei a loro volta oggetto dell'ira divina
2 Sei dunque inescusabile, chiunque tu sia, o uomo che giudichi; perché mentre giudichi gli altri, condanni te stesso; infatti, tu che giudichi, fai le medesime cose. 2 Eppure noi sappiamo che il giudizio di Dio è secondo verità contro quelli che commettono tali cose. 3 Pensi forse, o uomo che giudichi quelli che commettono tali azioni e intanto le fai tu stesso, di sfuggire al giudizio di Dio? 4 O ti prendi gioco della ricchezza della sua bontà, della sua tolleranza e della sua pazienza, senza riconoscere che la bontà di Dio ti spinge alla conversione? 5 Tu, però, con la tua durezza e il tuo cuore impenitente accumuli collera su di te per il giorno dell'ira e della rivelazione del giusto giudizio di Dio, 6 il quale renderà a ciascuno secondo le sue opere: 7 la vita eterna a coloro che perseverando nelle opere di bene cercano gloria, onore e incorruttibilità; 8 sdegno ed ira contro coloro che per ribellione resistono alla verità e obbediscono all'ingiustizia. 9 Tribolazione e angoscia per ogni uomo che opera il male, per il Giudeo prima e poi per il Greco; 10 gloria invece, onore e pace per chi opera il bene, per il Giudeo prima e poi per il Greco, 11 perché presso Dio non c'è parzialità.
Malgrado la legge
12 Tutti quelli che hanno peccato senza la legge, periranno anche senza la legge; quanti invece hanno peccato sotto la legge, saranno giudicati con la legge. 13 Perché non coloro che ascoltano la legge sono giusti davanti a Dio, ma quelli che mettono in pratica la legge saranno giustificati. 14 Quando i pagani, che non hanno la legge, per natura agiscono secondo la legge, essi, pur non avendo legge, sono legge a se stessi; 15 essi dimostrano che quanto la legge esige è scritto nei loro cuori come risulta dalla testimonianza della loro coscienza e dai loro stessi ragionamenti, che ora li accusano ora li difendono. 16 Così avverrà nel giorno in cui Dio giudicherà i segreti degli uomini per mezzo di Gesù Cristo, secondo il mio vangelo.
17 Ora, se tu ti vanti di portare il nome di Giudeo e ti riposi sicuro sulla legge, e ti glori di Dio, 18 del quale conosci la volontà e, istruito come sei dalla legge, sai discernere ciò che è meglio, 19 e sei convinto di esser guida dei ciechi, luce di coloro che sono nelle tenebre, 20 educatore degli ignoranti, maestro dei semplici, perché possiedi nella legge l'espressione della sapienza e della verità... 21 ebbene, come mai tu, che insegni agli altri, non insegni a te stesso? Tu che predichi di non rubare, rubi? 22 Tu che proibisci l'adulterio, sei adultero? Tu che detesti gli idoli, ne derubi i templi? 23 Tu che ti glori della legge, offendi Dio trasgredendo la legge? 24 Infatti il nome di Dio è bestemmiato per causa vostra tra i pagani, come sta scritto.
Malgrado la circoncisione
25 La circoncisione è utile, sì, se osservi la legge; ma se trasgredisci la legge, con la tua circoncisione sei come uno non circonciso. 26 Se dunque chi non è circonciso osserva le prescrizioni della legge, la sua non circoncisione non gli verrà forse contata come circoncisione? 27 E così, chi non è circonciso fisicamente, ma osserva la legge, giudicherà te che, nonostante la lettera della legge e la circoncisione, sei un trasgressore della legge. 28 Infatti, Giudeo non è chi appare tale all'esterno, e la circoncisione non è quella visibile nella carne;
Romans 2
Complete Jewish Bible
2 Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, passing judgment; for when you judge someone else, you are passing judgment against yourself; since you who are judging do the same things he does. 2 We know that God’s judgment lands impartially on those who do such things; 3 do you think that you, a mere man passing judgment on others who do such things, yet doing them yourself, will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or perhaps you despise the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience; because you don’t realize that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to turn from your sins. 5 But by your stubbornness, by your unrepentant heart, you are storing up anger for yourself on the Day of Anger, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed; 6 for he will pay back each one according to his deeds.[a] 7 To those who seek glory, honor and immortality by perseverance in doing good, he will pay back eternal life. 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey evil, he will pay back wrath and anger.
9 Yes, he will pay back misery and anguish to every human being who does evil, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile; 10 but glory and honor and shalom to everyone who keeps doing what is good, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism. 12 All who have sinned outside the framework of Torah will die outside the framework of Torah; and all who have sinned within the framework of Torah will be judged by Torah. 13 For it is not merely the hearers of Torah whom God considers righteous; rather, it is the doers of what Torah says who will be made righteous in God’s sight. 14 For whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torah requires, then these, even though they don’t have Torah, for themselves are Torah! 15 For their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts.[b] Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them 16 on a day when God passes judgment on people’s inmost secrets. (According to the Good News as I proclaim it, he does this through the Messiah Yeshua.)
17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rest on Torah and boast about God 18 and know his will and give your approval to what is right, because you have been instructed from the Torah; 19 and if you have persuaded yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light in the darkness, 20 an instructor for the spiritually unaware and a teacher of children, since in the Torah you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth; 21 then, you who teach others, don’t you teach yourself? Preaching, “Thou shalt not steal,”[c] do you steal? 22 Saying, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,”[d] do you commit adultery? Detesting idols, do you commit idolatrous acts? 23 You who take such pride in Torah, do you, by disobeying the Torah, dishonor God? — 24 as it says in the Tanakh, “For it is because of you that God’s name is blasphemed by the Goyim.”[e] 25 For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision! 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a b’rit-milah and have Torah written out but violate it! 28 For the real Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not only external and physical. 29 On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.
Footnotes
- Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:13(12), Proverbs 24:12
- Romans 2:15 Jeremiah 31:32(33)
- Romans 2:21 Exodus 20:13(15), Deuteronomy 5:17(19)
- Romans 2:22 Exodus 20:13(14), Deuteronomy 5:17(18)
- Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5, Ezekiel 36:20
Romans 2
King James Version
2 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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