Romans 2

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.	1 So no matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. It is yourself that you condemnwhen you judge others, since you behave in the same way as those you are condemning.
2 For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.	2 We are well aware that people who behave like that are justly condemned by God.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?	3 But you -- when you judge those who behave like this while you are doing the same yourself -- do youthink you wil escape God's condemnation?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?	4 Or are you not disregarding his abundant goodness, tolerance and patience, failing to realise that this generosity of God is meant to bring you to repentance?
5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.	5 Your stubborn refusal to repent is only storing up retribution for yourself on that Day of retribution whenGod's just verdicts wil be made known.
6 Who will render to every man according to his works.	6 He wil repay everyone as their deeds deserve.
7 To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:	7 For those who aimed for glory and honour and immortality by persevering in doing good, there will beeternal life;
8 But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.	8 but for those who out of jealousy have taken for their guide not truth but injustice, there wil be the furyof retribution.
9 Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.	9 Trouble and distress wil come to every human being who does evil -- Jews first, but Greeks as wel ;
10 But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.	10 glory and honour and peace will come to everyone who does good -- Jews first, but Greeks as wel .
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.	11 There is no favouritism with God.
12 For whosoever have sinned without the law, shall perish without the law; and whosoever have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.	12 Al those who have sinned without the Law wil perish without the Law; and those under the Law whohave sinned wil be judged by the Law.
13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.	13 For the ones that God wil justify are not those who have heard the Law but those who have kept theLaw.
14 For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves:	14 So, when gentiles, not having the Law, still through their own innate sense behave as the Lawcommands, then, even though they have no Law, they are a law for themselves.
15 Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one another,	15 They can demonstrate the effect of the Law engraved on their hearts, to which their own consciencebears witness; since they are aware of various considerations, some of which accuse them, while others providethem with a defence . . . on the day when,
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.	16 according to the gospel that I preach, God, through Jesus Christ, judges all human secrets.
17 But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,	17 If you can cal yourself a Jew, and you real y trust in the Law, and are proud of your God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,	18 and know his wil , and tel right from wrong because you have been taught by the Law;
19 Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,	19 if you are confident that you are a guide to the blind and a beacon to those in the dark,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.	20 that you can teach the ignorant and instruct the unlearned because the Law embodies all knowledgeand all truth-
21 Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:	21 so then, in teaching others, do you teach yourself as wel ? You preach that there is to be no stealing,but do you steal?
22 Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:	22 You say that adultery is forbidden, but do you commit adultery? You detest the worship of objects, butdo you desecrate holy things yourself?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.	23 If, while you are boasting of the Law, you disobey it, then you are bringing God into contempt.
24 (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)	24 As scripture says: It is your fault that the name of God is held in contempt among the nations.
25 Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.	25 Circumcision has its value if you keep the Law; but if you go on breaking the Law, you are no morecircumcised than the uncircumcised.
26 If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?	26 And if an uncircumcised man keeps the commands of the Law, wil not his uncircumcised state countas circumcision?
27 And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?	27 More, the man who, in his native uncircumcised state, keeps the Law, is a condemnation of you, who,by your concentration on the letter and on circumcision, actual y break the Law.
28 For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:	28 Being a Jew is not only having the outward appearance of a Jew, and circumcision is not only avisible physical operation.
29 But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.	29 The real Jew is the one who is inwardly a Jew, and real circumcision is in the heart, a thing not of theletter but of the spirit. He may not be praised by any human being, but he wil be praised by God.