Romans 2
Worldwide English (New Testament)
2 Do you judge another people? You your-selves have done wrong things. So when you judge others, you judge yourselves, because you do the same things. You judge them and yet you do the same things.
2 We know that God judges people who do such things. And he judges them by what is true.
3 Man, you judge people who do such things and yet you do them yourself. Do you think that God will not judge you?
4 Or do you not respect him for being kind, very patient, and for waiting a long time? Do you not know that God is kind, and he wants to lead you away from doing wrong things?
5 But your hearts are hard. You will not stop. That is why God will be angry with you. He will be angry on the day when people will see that he judges in the right way.
6 He will pay every man for what he has done.
7 He will give life for ever to people who keep on doing good. These people want to have glory and honour from God, and to live for ever.
8 But God will be very angry with the people who think of themselves first before others. They do not obey what is right. They do wrong things.
9 Every one who does what is wrong will have much trouble and a hard time. This will happen to the Jews first, then to those who are not Jews.
10 And every one who does what is good, will be made great. He will have honour and peace. This will happen to the Jews first and then to those who are not Jews.
11 God does not love some people more than others.
12 All those who do not know the law [of God given to Moses] and did what was wrong, will die. But they will not be judged by the law. All those who know the law and did what was wrong will be judged by the law.
13 (God does not say people are good because they have heard the law. But people who obey the law will be called good people.
14 Some people do not have the law. But they do what the law says because their own hearts tell them to. They have a law of their own, even though they do not know the law.
15 They show that the law is written in their hearts. They know what is right to do and what is wrong to do. Their own thoughts tell them they have done what is wrong or what is not wrong.)
16 This will be on the day when God judges the things men have kept secret. Jesus Christ will be the judge. That is part of the good news I tell people.
17 But you call yourselves Jews. You believe the law. You are proud of your God.
18 You know what he wants people to do. You know the thoughts that are good because you have been taught the law.
19 You are sure that you can lead people who are like blind men. You are like a light for people who are in the dark.
20 You are sure that you can tell foolish people what is right. You can teach people who are like children. You know what you need to know and you know what is true because you have the law.
21 You teach another person. Do you not teach yourself? You say people must not steal. Do you steal?
22 You say people must not commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You hate idols. Do you steal things from the houses of idols?
23 You are proud that you have the law. Do you break the law, and in that way show you do not honour God?
24 The holy writings say, `People who are not Jews say wrong things about the name of God. They do it because of what you Jews do.'
25 Circumcision of the body is a good thing if you obey the law. But if you break the law, you are like a man who has not been circumcised with this mark of the Jew.
26 So if a man who has not been circumcised obeys the law, will he not be like a man who has been circumcised?
27 Some people have not been circumcised, but they obey the law. They will show that you should be punished. You have the written law and you have been circumcised, and yet you break the law.
28 If a person is a Jew only on the outside, he is not really a Jew. And true circumcision is not something that is done on the outside of the body.
29 If a person is a Jew inside, he is really a Jew. It is God who praises him, not people. True circumcision is done in the heart. It is in the spirit, not in the body. Such people are not praised; but God praises them.
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
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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