Book of Common Prayer

¹² For all who sinned without-Law will also perish without-Law, and all who sinned under^[a] the Law will be judged by the Law. ¹³ For not the hearers of law^[b] 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^[c] 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^[d]— 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].

Don’t Look Down On These Little Ones. God Does Not Want One of Them Lost

¹⁰ “See that you do not look-down-upon^[a] one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in the heavens are continually seeing^[b] the face of My Father in the heavens. ^{11 [c] 12} What seems right to you? If a hundred sheep belong to any man and one of them went-astray, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and having gone, be seeking the one going astray? ¹³ And if it comes about that he finds it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine not having gone astray. ¹⁴ So it is not the will in-the-sight-of ^[d] your Father in the heavens that one of these little ones should be-lost.

If Your Brother Sins Against You, Seek To Restore Him

¹⁵ “But if your brother sins against you^[e], go, expose^[f] him between you and him alone. If he listens-to you, you gained^[g] your brother. ¹⁶ But if he does not listen, take-along with you one or two more in order that every word may be established based-on the mouth of two or three witnesses. And if he refuses-to-listen-to them, tell it to the church. ¹⁷ And if he even refuses^[h] to listen to the church, let him be to you just like the Gentile^[i] and the tax-collector^[j]. ¹⁸ Truly I say to you, whatever you^[k] bind^[l] on earth will have been bound^[m] in heaven. And whatever you loose on earth will have been loosed in heaven. ¹⁹ Again^[n], truly I say to you that if two of you on earth agree concerning any matter which they may ask, it will be done for them by My Father in the heavens. ²⁰ For^[o] where two or three have been gathered-together in^[p] My name, I am there in the midst of them”.