Romans 2 Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now then, you there, whoever you are who judges someone else for things you practice yourself—you condemn yourself and are inexcusable. ² Further, we know that God’s judgment against those who practice such things is according to truth. ³ So then, you who judge those who practice such things while doing the same, do you really imagine that you will escape God’s judgment? ⁴ Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance? ⁵ Rather, due to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are treasuring up wrath for yourself in the day of God’s wrath and revelation and righteous judgment, ⁶ who will repay each one according to his works: ⁷ to those who seek for glory, honor and incorruption, by persevering in doing good—eternal life; ⁸ but to those who, due to self-seeking, are disobeying the truth (while obeying the unrighteousness)—fury and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon every human soul who works at the evil, whether Jew (first) or Greek; ¹⁰ but glory, honor and peace to everyone who works the good, whether Jew (first) or Greek. ¹¹ Now there is no favoritism with God. ¹² For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by law. ¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified ¹⁴ (indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that don’t have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves; ¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their reasonings among themselves accusing or even excusing) ¹⁶ in the day when God, according to my Gospel, will judge people’s secrets by Jesus Christ. ¹⁷ Look, you declare yourself a Jew, and rest on the Law, and boast in God, ¹⁸ and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law. ¹⁹ Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ²¹ You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²² You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³ You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the Law? ²⁴ For, just as it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” ²⁵ Now circumcision does have value if you keep the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶ So if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? ²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised who fulfills the law judge you, complete with written code and circumcision, who are a transgressor of the Law? ²⁸ Because a person is not a [true] Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is [true] circumcision something outward in the flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in spirit, not letter—whose praise is not from men but from God.