Romanos 2
Nova Versão Transformadora
O julgamento de Deus
2 Talvez você pense que pode condenar esses indivíduos, mas é igual a eles e não tem desculpa! Quando diz que eles deveriam ser castigados, condena a si mesmo, porque você, que julga os outros, pratica as mesmas coisas. 2 E sabemos que Deus, em sua justiça, castigará todos que praticam tais coisas. 3 Uma vez que você julga outros por fazerem essas coisas, o que o leva a pensar que evitará o julgamento de Deus ao agir da mesma forma? 4 Não percebe quanto ele é bondoso, tolerante e paciente com você? Não vê que essas manifestações da bondade de Deus visam levá-lo ao arrependimento?
5 Mas, por causa de seu coração rebelde, você se recusa a abandonar o pecado, acumulando ira sobre si mesmo. Pois o dia da ira se aproxima, quando o justo juízo de Deus se revelará. 6 Ele julgará cada um de acordo com seus atos. 7 Dará vida eterna àqueles que, persistindo em fazer o bem, buscam glória, honra e imortalidade. 8 Mas derramará ira e indignação sobre os que vivem para si mesmos, que se recusam a obedecer à verdade e preferem entregar-se a uma vida de perversidade. 9 A todos que praticam o mal, ele trará aflição e calamidade: primeiro para os judeus, e também para os gentios.[a] 10 Mas, a todos que fazem o bem, ele dará glória, honra e paz: primeiro para os judeus, e também para os gentios. 11 Pois Deus não age com favoritismo.
12 Assim, todos os que pecarem, mesmo não tendo a lei escrita de Deus, serão destruídos. E todos os que pecarem estando sob a lei de Deus, de acordo com essa lei serão julgados. 13 Pois o simples ato de ouvir a lei não nos torna justos diante de Deus, mas sim a obediência à lei é que nos torna justos aos olhos dele. 14 Até mesmo os gentios, que não têm a lei escrita, quando obedecem a ela instintivamente, mostram que conhecem a lei, mesmo não a tendo. 15 Demonstram que a lei está gravada em seu coração, pois sua consciência e seus pensamentos os acusam ou lhes dizem que estão agindo corretamente. 16 Isso se confirmará no dia em que Deus julgar os segredos de cada um por meio de Cristo Jesus, de acordo com as boas-novas que anuncio.
Os judeus e a lei
17 Você, que se diz judeu, se apoia na lei de Deus e se orgulha de seu relacionamento especial com ele. 18 Conhece a vontade de Deus: sabe o que é certo, porque foi instruído em sua lei. 19 Está convencido de que é guia para os cegos e luz para os que estão perdidos na escuridão. 20 Considera-se capaz de instruir os ignorantes e ensinar os caminhos de Deus às crianças. Está certo de que a lei de Deus lhe dá pleno conhecimento e verdade.
21 Pois bem, se você ensina a outros, por que não ensina a si mesmo? Diz a outros que não roubem, mas você mesmo rouba? 22 Afirma que é errado cometer adultério, mas você mesmo adultera? Condena a idolatria, mas rouba objetos dos templos? 23 Você, que tanto se orgulha de conhecer a lei, desonra a Deus, desobedecendo à lei? 24 Não é de admirar que as Escrituras digam: “Os gentios blasfemam o nome de Deus por causa de vocês”.[b]
25 A prática judaica da circuncisão só tem valor se você obedece à lei de Deus. Mas se você, que é circuncidado, não obedece à lei de Deus, não é diferente de um gentio incircuncidado. 26 E, se os incircuncidados obedecerem à lei de Deus, acaso não serão também considerados circuncidados? 27 De fato, os gentios incircuncidados que cumprem a lei de Deus condenarão você, judeu, que é circuncidado e tem a lei de Deus, mas não obedece a ela.
28 Pois ser judeu exteriormente ou ser circuncidado não torna ninguém judeu de fato. 29 Judeu verdadeiro é quem o é no íntimo, e circuncisão verdadeira é a do coração, feita pelo Espírito, e não pela letra da lei, recebendo assim a aprovação de Deus, e não das pessoas.
Romains 2
La Bible du Semeur
Celui qui condamne les autres se condamne lui-même
2 Toi donc, qui que tu sois, qui condamnes autrui, tu n’as aucune excuse, car en condamnant les autres, tu te condamnes toi-même, puisque toi qui les condamnes, tu te conduis comme eux. 2 Or, nous savons que le jugement de Dieu contre ceux qui agissent ainsi est conforme à la vérité.
3 T’imaginerais-tu, toi qui condamnes ceux qui commettent de tels actes, et qui te comportes comme eux, que tu vas échapper à la condamnation divine ? 4 Ou alors, méprises-tu les trésors de bonté, de patience et de générosité déployés par Dieu, sans te rendre compte que sa bonté veut t’amener à changer[a] ?
5 Par ton entêtement et ton refus de changer, tu te prépares un châtiment d’autant plus grand pour le jour où se manifesteront la colère et le juste jugement de Dieu.
6 Ce jour-là, il donnera à chacun ce que lui auront valu ses actes[b].
7 Ceux qui, en pratiquant le bien avec persévérance, cherchent la gloire à venir, l’honneur et l’immortalité, recevront de lui la vie éternelle[c]. 8 Mais, à ceux qui, par ambition personnelle[d], repoussent la vérité et cèdent à l’injustice, Dieu réserve sa colère et sa fureur.
9 Oui, la souffrance et l’angoisse attendent tout homme qui pratique le mal, le Juif en premier lieu et aussi le non-Juif.
10 Mais la gloire à venir, l’honneur et la paix seront accordés à celui qui pratique le bien, quel qu’il soit, d’abord le Juif et aussi le non-Juif, 11 car Dieu ne fait pas de favoritisme.
12 Ceux qui ont péché sans avoir eu connaissance de la Loi de Moïse périront sans qu’elle intervienne dans leur jugement. Mais ceux qui ont péché alors qu’ils étaient soumis au régime de la Loi seront jugés conformément à la Loi. 13 Car ce ne sont pas ceux qui se contentent d’écouter la lecture de la Loi qui seront justes aux yeux de Dieu. Non, seuls ceux qui appliquent la Loi sont considérés comme justes.
14 En effet, lorsque les païens qui n’ont pas la Loi de Moïse accomplissent naturellement ce que demande cette Loi, ils se tiennent lieu de loi à eux-mêmes, alors qu’ils n’ont pas la Loi. 15 Ils démontrent par leur comportement que les œuvres demandées par la Loi sont inscrites dans leur cœur. Leur conscience en témoigne également, ainsi que les raisonnements par lesquels ils s’accusent ou s’excusent les uns les autres[e]. 16 Tout cela paraîtra le jour[f] où, conformément à l’Evangile que j’annonce, Dieu jugera par Jésus-Christ tout ce que les hommes ont caché.
Les Juifs sont coupables devant Dieu
17 Eh bien, toi qui te donnes le nom de Juif, tu te reposes sur la Loi, tu fais de Dieu ton sujet de fierté[g], 18 tu connais sa volonté, tu juges de ce qui est le meilleur parce que tu es instruit par la Loi. 19 Tu es certain d’être le guide des aveugles, la lumière de ceux qui errent dans les ténèbres, 20 l’éducateur des insensés, l’enseignant des ignorants, tout cela sous prétexte que tu as dans la Loi l’expression parfaite de la connaissance et de la vérité. 21 Toi donc, qui enseignes les autres, tu ne t’enseignes pas toi-même. Tu prêches aux autres de ne pas voler, et tu voles ! 22 Tu dis de ne pas commettre d’adultère, et tu commets l’adultère ! Tu as les idoles en horreur, et tu commets des sacrilèges[h] ! 23 Tu es fier de posséder la Loi, mais tu déshonores Dieu en y désobéissant ! 24 Et ainsi, comme le dit l’Ecriture, à cause de vous, Juifs, le nom de Dieu est outragé parmi les païens[i].
25 Assurément, être circoncis a un sens – à condition d’appliquer la Loi. Mais, si tu désobéis à la Loi, être circoncis n’a pas plus de valeur que d’être incirconcis.
26 Mais si l’incirconcis accomplit ce que la Loi définit comme juste, cet incirconcis ne sera-t-il pas considéré comme un circoncis ?
27 Et cet homme qui accomplit la Loi sans être physiquement circoncis ne va-t-il pas te condamner, toi qui désobéis à la Loi tout en possédant les Ecritures et la circoncision ?
28 Car ce n’est pas ce qui est visible qui fait le Juif, ni la marque visible dans la chair qui fait la circoncision, 29 mais ce qui fait le Juif c’est ce qui est intérieur, et la vraie circoncision est celle que l’Esprit opère dans le cœur et non celle que l’on pratique en obéissant à la lettre de la Loi.
Tel est le Juif qui reçoit sa louange, non des hommes, mais de Dieu.
Footnotes
- 2.4 Autres traductions : à te repentir ou à changer d’attitude ou à changer de comportement.
- 2.6 Ps 62.13.
- 2.7 Dans les v. 7-8, Paul explicite le principe de la Loi qu’il a énoncé au v. 6.
- 2.8 Ou : par esprit de contestation, ou de rivalité.
- 2.15 Autre traduction : ils s’accusent ou s’excusent eux-mêmes.
- 2.16 Tout cela paraîtra le jour. Autre traduction : Ils anticipent de la sorte sur le jour.
- 2.17 Cf. Ps 34.3.
- 2.22 Autre traduction : tu en fais le trafic. Certains Juifs collectionnaient ou revendaient des idoles et des objets volés dans les temples païens – contrairement aux exigences de la Loi (Dt 7.25).
- 2.24 Es 52.5 cité selon l’ancienne version grecque.
Romans 2
New International Version
God’s Righteous Judgment
2 You, therefore, have no excuse,(A) you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.(B) 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches(C) of his kindness,(D) forbearance(E) and patience,(F) not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?(G)
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(H), when his righteous judgment(I) will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a](J) 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor(K) and immortality,(L) he will give eternal life.(M) 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(N) there will be wrath and anger.(O) 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:(P) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;(Q) 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.(R) 11 For God does not show favoritism.(S)
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law(T) will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey(U) the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law,(V) they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets(W) through Jesus Christ,(X) as my gospel(Y) declares.
The Jews and the Law
17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;(Z) 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(AA) 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?(AB) 23 You who boast in the law,(AC) do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[b](AD)
25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(AE) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(AF) 26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements,(AG) will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?(AH) 27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you(AI) who, even though you have the[c] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,(AJ) nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.(AK) 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,(AL) by the Spirit,(AM) not by the written code.(AN) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.(AO)
Footnotes
- Romans 2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12
- Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22
- Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a
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.
Romans 2
New King James Version
God’s Righteous Judgment
2 Therefore you are (A)inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, (B)for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise (C)the riches of His goodness, (D)forbearance, and (E)longsuffering, (F)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (G)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who (H)“will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and (I)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew (J)first and also of the [c]Greek; 10 (K)but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For (L)there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13 (for (M)not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the (N)work of the law written in their hearts, their (O)conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16 (P)in the day when God will judge the secrets of men (Q)by Jesus Christ, (R)according to my gospel.
The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles
17 [d]Indeed (S)you are called a Jew, and (T)rest[e] on the law, (U)and make your boast in God, 18 and (V)know His will, and (W)approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and (X)are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, (Y)having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21 (Z)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, (AA)do you rob temples? 23 You who (AB)make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 24 For (AC)“the name of God is (AD)blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.
Circumcision of No Avail
25 (AE)For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, (AF)if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, (AG)judge you who, even with your [f]written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For (AH)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew (AI)who is one inwardly; and (AJ)circumcision is that of the heart, (AK)in the Spirit, not in the letter; (AL)whose [g]praise is not from men but from God.
Footnotes
- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
- Romans 2:9 Gentile
- Romans 2:17 NU But if
- Romans 2:17 rely
- Romans 2:27 Lit. letter
- Romans 2:29 A play on words—Jew is literally praise.
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