Romans 2
Common English Bible
Jews are without excuse
2 So every single one of you who judge others is without any excuse. You condemn yourself when you judge another person because the one who is judging is doing the same things. 2 We know that God’s judgment agrees with the truth, and his judgment is against those who do these kinds of things. 3 If you judge those who do these kinds of things while you do the same things yourself, think about this: Do you believe that you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you have contempt for the riches of God’s generosity, tolerance, and patience? Don’t you realize that God’s kindness is supposed to lead you to change your heart and life? 5 You are storing up wrath for yourself because of your stubbornness and your heart that refuses to change. God’s just judgment will be revealed on the day of wrath. 6 God will repay everyone based on their works.[a] 7 On the one hand, he will give eternal life to those who look for glory, honor, and immortality based on their patient good work. 8 But on the other hand, there will be wrath and anger for those who obey wickedness instead of the truth because they are acting out of selfishness and disobedience. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 10 But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 11 God does not have favorites.
12 Those who have sinned outside the Law will also die outside the Law, and those who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. 13 It isn’t the ones who hear the Law who are righteous in God’s eyes. It is the ones who do what the Law says who will be treated as righteous. 14 Gentiles don’t have the Law. But when they instinctively do what the Law requires they are a Law in themselves, though they don’t have the Law. 15 They show the proof of the Law written on their hearts, and their consciences affirm it. Their conflicting thoughts will accuse them, or even make a defense for them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the hidden truth about human beings through Christ Jesus.
Jews will be judged as well
17 But,
if you call yourself a Jew;
if you rely on the Law;
if you brag about your relationship to God;
18 if you know the will of God;
if you are taught by the Law so that you can figure out the things that really matter;
19 if you have persuaded yourself that you are:
a guide for the blind;
a light to those who are in darkness;
20 an educator of the foolish;
a teacher of infants (since you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law);
21 then why don’t you who are teaching others teach yourself?
If you preach, “No stealing,” do you steal?
22 If you say, “No adultery,” do you commit adultery?
If you hate idols, do you rob temples?
23 If you brag about the Law, do you shame God by breaking the Law? 24 As it is written: The name of God is discredited by the Gentiles because of you.[b]
25 Circumcision is an advantage if you do what the Law says. But if you are a person who breaks the Law, your status of being circumcised has changed into not being circumcised. 26 So if the person who isn’t circumcised keeps the Law, won’t his status of not being circumcised be counted as if he were circumcised? 27 The one who isn’t physically circumcised but keeps the Law will judge you. You became a lawbreaker after you had the written Law and circumcision. 28 It isn’t the Jew who maintains outward appearances who will receive praise from God, and it isn’t people who are outwardly circumcised on their bodies. 29 Instead, it is the person who is a Jew inside, who is circumcised in spirit, not literally. That person’s praise doesn’t come from people but from God.
Footnotes
Romu 2
Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn
Ìdájọ́ òdodo Ọlọ́run
2 (A)Nítorí náà, aláìríwí ni ẹnikẹ́ni tí ó wù kí ó jẹ́ tí ń dá ni lẹ́jọ́: nítorí nínú ohun tí ìwọ ń ṣe ìdájọ́ ẹlòmíràn, ìwọ ń dá ara rẹ lẹ́bi; nítorí ìwọ tí ń dájọ́ ń ṣe ohun kan náà nínú èyí tí ìwọ ń dá ni lẹ́jọ́. 2 Ṣùgbọ́n àwa mọ̀ pé ìdájọ́ Ọlọ́run jẹ́ òtítọ́ si gbogbo àwọn tí ó ń ṣe irú ohun báwọ̀nyí. 3 Nítorí bí ìwọ tí ń ṣe ènìyàn lásán bá ń ṣe ìdájọ́ àwọn tí ń ṣe irú ohun báwọ̀nyí, tí ìwọ tìkára rẹ ń ṣe bẹ́ẹ̀, ìwọ ro èyí pé ìwọ o yọ nínú ìdájọ́ Ọlọ́run bí? 4 (B)Tàbí ìwọ ń gàn ọrọ̀ oore àti ìpamọ́ra àti sùúrù rẹ̀? Ìwọ kò ha mọ̀ pé oore Ọlọ́run ni ó ń fà ọ́ lọ sì ìrònúpìwàdà?
5 Ṣùgbọ́n gẹ́gẹ́ bí líle àti àìronúpìwàdà ọkàn rẹ̀, ìwọ ń to ìbínú jọ fún ara rẹ de ọjọ́ ìbínú àti ìfihàn ìdájọ́ òdodo Ọlọ́run. 6 (C)Ọlọ́run yóò san án fún olúkúlùkù gẹ́gẹ́ bí iṣẹ́ rẹ̀: 7 Àwọn ẹni tí ń fi sùúrù nínú rere ṣíṣe, wá ògo àti ọlá àti àìdíbàjẹ́ ni yóò fi ìyè àìnípẹ̀kun fún. 8 Ṣùgbọ́n fún àwọn onímọ̀-tara-ẹni-nìkan, tí wọn kò sì gba òtítọ́ gbọ́, ṣùgbọ́n tí wọn ń tẹ̀lé ọ̀nà búburú, wọn yóò ní ìrírí ìrunú àti ìbínú rẹ̀. 9 Ìpọ́njú àti ìrora, yóò wà lórí olúkúlùkù ọkàn ènìyàn tí ń hùwà ibi: ti Júù ṣáájú, àti àwọn Helleni pẹ̀lú; 10 ṣùgbọ́n ògo, àti ọlá, àti àlàáfíà, fún olúkúlùkù ẹni tí ń hùwà rere, fún Júù, ṣáájú àti fún àwọn Helleni pẹ̀lú: 11 Nítorí Ọlọ́run kì í ṣe ojúsàájú ènìyàn.
12 (D)Gbogbo àwọn tí ó ṣẹ̀ ní àìlófin wọn ó sì ṣègbé láìlófin: àti iye àwọn tí ó ṣẹ̀ lábẹ́ òfin, àwọn ni a ó fi òfin dá lẹ́jọ́; 13 (E)Nítorí kì í ṣe àwọn olùgbọ́ òfin ni ẹni ìdáláre lọ́dọ̀ Ọlọ́run, ṣùgbọ́n àwọn olùṣe òfin ni a ó dá láre. 14 Nítorí nígbà tí àwọn aláìkọlà, tí kò ní òfin, bá ṣe ohun tí ó wà nínú òfin nípa ìwà ẹ̀dá, àwọn wọ̀nyí, jẹ́ òfin fún ara wọn bí wọn kò tilẹ̀ ní òfin. 15 Àwọn ẹni tí ó fihàn pé, a kọ̀wé iṣẹ́ òfin sí wọn lọ́kàn, tí ẹ̀rí ọkàn wọn pẹ̀lú sì tún ń jẹ́ wọn lẹ́rìí, àti pé, èrò ọkàn wọn tí ó jẹ́ ọ̀nà ìfinisùn, sì ń gbè wọ́n lẹ́yìn ní ìsinsin yìí. 16 (F)Èyí yóò farahàn ní ọjọ́ náà nígbà tí Ọlọ́run yóò tipasẹ̀ Jesu Kristi ṣe ìdájọ́ àwọn àṣírí ènìyàn gẹ́gẹ́ bí ìhìnrere mi.
Àwọn Júù àti òfin
17 Ṣùgbọ́n bí a bá ń pe ìwọ ní Júù, tí o sì sinmi lé òfin, tí o sì ń ṣògo nínú ìbálòpọ̀ rẹ̀ sí Ọlọ́run, 18 (G)tí o sì mọ ìfẹ́ rẹ̀, tí o sì fọwọ́sí ohun tí ó dára jùlọ, nítorí tí a ti kọ́ ọ ní òfin; 19 tí o sì dá ara rẹ lójú pé ìwọ ni amọ̀nà àwọn afọ́jú, ìmọ́lẹ̀ fún àwọn tí ó wà ni òkùnkùn, 20 (H)Olùkọ́ àwọn aláìmòye, olùkọ́ àwọn ọmọdé, ẹni tí ó ní ètò ìmọ̀ àti òtítọ́ òfin lọ́wọ́, 21 (I)Ǹjẹ́ ìwọ tí o ń kọ́ ẹlòmíràn, ìwọ kò kọ́ ara rẹ? Ìwọ tí ó ń wàásù kí ènìyàn má jalè, ìwọ ha ń jalè bí? 22 Ìwọ tí o wí pé, kí ènìyàn má ṣe panṣágà, ìwọ ń ṣe panṣágà bí? Ìwọ tí o kórìíra òrìṣà, ìwọ ń ja tẹmpili ní olè bí? 23 Ìwọ ti ń ṣògo nínú òfin, ìwọ ha ń bu Ọlọ́run ni ọlá kù nípa rírú òfin? 24 (J)Nítorí gẹ́gẹ́ bí a ti kọ ọ́, “Orúkọ Ọlọ́run sá à di ìsọ̀rọ̀-òdì sí láàrín àwọn aláìkọlà nítorí yín.”
25 (K)Nítorí ìkọlà ní èrè nítòótọ́, bí ìwọ bá pa òfin mọ́; ṣùgbọ́n bí ìwọ bá jẹ́ arúfin, ìkọlà rẹ di àìkọlà. 26 (L)Nítorí náà bí àwọn aláìkọlà bá pa ìlànà òfin mọ́, a kì yóò ha kà wọ́n sí àwọn tí a kọ nílà bí? 27 (M)Aláìkọlà nípa àdánidá, bí ó bá pa òfin mọ́, yóò dá ẹ̀bi fún ìwọ tí ó jẹ́ arúfin nípa ti àkọsílẹ̀ òfin àti ìkọlà.
28 (N)Kì í ṣe èyí tí ó farahàn ní òde ni Júù, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kì í ṣe èyí tí ó farahàn ní ara ni ìkọlà: 29 (O)Ṣùgbọ́n Júù ti inú ni Júù, àti ìkọlà sì ni ti ọkàn nínú ẹ̀mí tí kì í ṣe ti àkọsílẹ̀, ìyìn ẹni tí kò sí lọ́dọ̀ ènìyàn, bí kò ṣe lọ́dọ̀ Ọlọ́run.
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