¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man – everyone who judges. For in the way that you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge do the same things. ²But we know that God's judgment is according to truth on those who do such things. ³Do you think this, O man who judges those who do such things, although you do them yourself: that you will escape God's judgment? ⁴Or do you look down on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, being ignorant of the fact that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵But you, with your obduracy and unrepentant heart, are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation and the righteous judgment of God, ⁶who will render to each person according to his works, ⁷to some in accordance with their patience in good work, seeking glory and honour and incorruptibility: age-abiding life; ⁸but to those who are of contention, and disobedient to the truth, and trusting in unrighteousness: wrath and anger, ⁹tribulation and anguish on the mind of every man who perpetrates evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; ¹⁰but glory and honour and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹¹For there is no partiality with God. ¹²For those who have sinned without the law will also die without the law. And those who have sinned in the law will be judged by the law, ¹³for it is not the hearers of the law who are just with God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified. ¹⁴For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, carry out by nature the requirements of the law, they, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵who demonstrate the work of the law, a work written in their hearts, while their conscience bears witness also, while their reasonings accuse or else defend each other – ¹⁶this judgment being on the day when God judges the secret things of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ. ¹⁷Look, you are called a Jew, and you rely on the law and boast in God, ¹⁸and you know his will, and you scrutinize the things that differ, being taught from the law, ¹⁹and you trust yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰as an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the formulation of the knowledge and the truth found in the law. ²¹So you who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal? ²²You who tell people not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abominate idols, do you steal sacred items? ²³You who boast in the law, do you through your transgression of the law dishonour God? ²⁴“For the name of God is blasphemed because of you among the Gentiles”, as it stands written. ²⁵For circumcision is indeed of benefit if you carry out the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶So if the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered as circumcision? ²⁷And will not uncircumcision by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you a transgressor of the law, despite your written word and circumcision? ²⁸For it is not he who is openly so who is a Jew, nor he who is openly circumcision in the flesh, ²⁹but he who is a Jew in secret, and is the circumcision of the heart by spirit, not by the written word, one whose praise is not from men but from God.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.6 ↔ Psalm 62:13^MT (Psalm 62:12^AV), Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 32:19 ● v.24 ↔ Ezekiel 36:20-21, Ezekiel 36:23, Isaiah 52:5.