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you have no excuse whenever you pass judgment on someone else, no matter who you are. For when you judge another, you are condemning yourself, since you who judge also do the same things. 2 We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So do you really think that you, when you pass judgment and yet do the same things, will really escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not recognizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
5 But because of your hardness and your unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed. 6 For God will repay each person according to his deeds: 7 to those who patiently endure in doing good seek for glory, honour, and immortality, He will give eternal life; 8 while for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be a reflection and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, then also to the Greek; 10 but glory, honour, and peace for everyone who does good, first to the Jew, then also to the Greek. 11 For there is no favouritism with God.
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will also be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 When Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, to which their own consciences also bear witness, and their own thoughts either accuse or excuse them. 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
17 Now if you call yourself a Jew, and you rely on the law and boast about your relationship to God, 18 and you know His will and approve of the things that are superior because you are instructed by the law, 19 and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness, 20 and instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having 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? 22 You who say that people must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonour God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you”.
25 Circumcision is indeed of benefit if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if an uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 Will not a person who is physically uncircumcised judge you if he obeys the law, and you are a lawbreaker possessing the written code of the law and circumcision?
28 For a man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something that is merely visible in the flesh. 29 To the contrary, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart—by the Spirit, and not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God.