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You Who Know More Truth And Judge Others By It Are Also Without Excuse

2 Therefore you are without-excuse, O human— everyone judging. For in what^[a] you are judging the other person, you are condemning yourself; for you, the one judging, are practicing the same things! ² And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon^[b] the ones practicing such things.

Do You Think You Will Escape God’s Judgment When You Do The Same Things?

³ But are you thinking this, O human— the one judging the ones practicing such things and doing them [yourself]— that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or are you disregarding the riches of His goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the good thing of God is leading you to repentance? ⁵ But in-accordance-with your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing-up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous-judgment of God, ⁶ Who will render to each one according to his works— ⁷ to the ones seeking glory and honor and immortality in accordance with endurance in good work, He will render eternal life; ⁸ but to the ones indeed disobeying the truth and obeying unrighteousness out of selfish-interest^[c], there will be wrath and fury.

There Is No Respect of Persons With God Regarding Sin And Judgment

⁹ There will be affliction and distress upon every soul of the person^[d] committing evil— both of the Jew first and of the Greek. ¹⁰ But there will be glory and honor and peace to everyone working good— both to the Jew first and to the Greek. ¹¹ For there is no respect-of-persons with God. ¹² For all who sinned without-Law will also perish without-Law, and all who sinned under^[e] the Law will be judged by the Law. ¹³ For not the hearers of law^[f] 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^[g] 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^[h]— 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].

Circumcision Will Not Help Transgressors

²⁵ For circumcision profits if you practice the Law— but if you are a transgressor of the Law your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised one keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcised one by nature who is fulfilling the Law will judge you, the transgressor of the Law with the letter^[i] and circumcision! ²⁸ For the Jew in the visible thing is not a Jew, nor is the circumcision in the visible^[j] thing in the flesh circumcision, ²⁹ but the Jew in the hidden thing is a Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, by^[k] the Spirit not the letter— whose praise is not from people, but from God.

So Then What Is The Advantage of The Jew?

3 What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the profit of circumcision? ² Much in every way. For first— that they were entrusted the oracles^[l] of God!

God Will Be Faithful To His Promises To The Jews Even If Some Reject Him

³ What indeed if some^[m] were faithless^[n]? Their faithlessness^[o] will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? ⁴ May it never be! But let God be [seen to be] true and every person a liar, just as it has been written [in Ps 51:4]: “So that You might be declared-righteous^[p] in Your words and prevail in Your being judged^[q]”.

But God Is Not Unrighteous To Inflict Wrath On Jews Who Sin

⁵ But if our^[r] unrighteousness demonstrates^[s] the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, the One inflicting the wrath, is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in accordance with human thinking^[t]). ⁶ May it never be! Otherwise how will God judge the world?

God Holds Jews Accountable For Their Sin Too

⁷ But if the truth of God abounded in my lie^[u] to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner? ⁸ Indeed, why not say “Let us do evil things that good things may come”, as we are blasphemed, and as some affirm us to say— whose condemnation is just^[v]!

Scripture Declares All Are Accountable And Guilty Before God. None Are Righteous

⁹ Therefore what? Are we better^[w] [than they]? Not at-all. For we already-charged^[x] that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, ¹⁰ just as it has been written: “There is not a righteous one, not even one. ¹¹ There is no one understanding. There is no one seeking-out God. ¹² They all turned-away, together they became useless^[y]. There is no one doing goodness. There is not as-many-as one” [Ps 14:1-3]. ¹³ “Their throat is an opened grave. With their tongues they were deceiving” [Ps 5:9]. “The poison of asps is under their lips” [Ps 140:3]. ¹⁴ “Whose mouth is full of cursing^[z] and bitterness” [Ps 10:7]. ¹⁵ “Their feet are swift to shed blood. ¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways. ¹⁷ And they did not know the way of peace” [Isa 59:7-8]. ¹⁸ “There is no fear of God before their eyes” [Ps 36:1]. ¹⁹ And we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to the ones under the Law— in order that every mouth may be stopped^[aa] and the whole world may become accountable^[ab] to God. ²⁰ Because by the works of law^[ac] no flesh will be declared-righteous in His sight. For through law comes the knowledge of sin.

But Now Righteousness From God Has Been Revealed

²¹ But now apart from law^[ad], the righteousness of God has been revealed, being attested by the Law and the Prophets.

It Comes As an Undeserved Gift Through Faith In Christ, Who Satisfied God’s Wrath

²² And it is the righteousness of God through faith^[ae] in Jesus Christ for all the ones believing! For there is no distinction, ²³ for all sinned and are coming-short-of the glory of God, ²⁴ being declared-righteous as-a-gift^[af] by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ Whom God set-forth^[ag] as that-which-satisfies^[ah] [His wrath] through faith, in^[ai] His blood— for the demonstration^[aj] of His righteousness because of the passing-by of the sins having previously-taken-place ²⁶ in the forbearance^[ak] of God; for the demonstration of His righteousness at the present time, so that He might be righteous and declaring-righteous the one of ^[al] faith in Jesus.

There Can Be No Boasting In Our Works: It Is By Faith For All!

²⁷ Where then is the boasting? It was shut-out^[am]. Through what kind of law^[an]? Of works? No, but through a law of faith. ²⁸ For we consider a person to be declared-righteous by faith apart from works of the Law. ²⁹ Or is He the God of Jews only^[ao]? Is He not also the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles also, ³⁰ since there is one God— Who will declare-righteous the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through the same^[ap] faith. ³¹ Do we then nullify the Law through the faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.