Romans 2

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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.	1 For this reason, O man, each one of you who judges is inexcusable. For by that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you do the same things that you judge.
2 We are well aware that people who behave like that are justly condemned by God.	2 For we know that the judgment of God is in accord with truth against those who do such things.
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?	3 But, O man, when you judge those who do such things as you yourself also do, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?
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?	4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?
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.	5 But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.
6 He wil repay everyone as their deeds deserve.	6 For he will render to each one according to his works:
7 For those who aimed for glory and honour and immortality by persevering in doing good, there will beeternal life;	7 To those who, in accord with patient good works, seek glory and honor and incorruption, certainly, he will render eternal life.
8 but for those who out of jealousy have taken for their guide not truth but injustice, there wil be the furyof retribution.	8 But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation.
9 Trouble and distress wil come to every human being who does evil -- Jews first, but Greeks as wel ;	9 Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek.
10 glory and honour and peace will come to everyone who does good -- Jews first, but Greeks as wel .	10 But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek.
11 There is no favouritism with God.	11 For there is no favoritism with God.
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.	12 For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law.
13 For the ones that God wil justify are not those who have heard the Law but those who have kept theLaw.	13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.
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.	14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature those things which are of the law, such persons, not having the law, are a law unto themselves.
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,	15 For they reveal the work of the law written in their hearts, while their conscience renders testimony about them, and their thoughts within themselves also accuse or even defend them,
16 according to the gospel that I preach, God, through Jesus Christ, judges all human secrets.	16 unto the day when God shall judge the hidden things of men, through Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
17 If you can cal yourself a Jew, and you real y trust in the Law, and are proud of your God,	17 But if you are called by name a Jew, and you rest upon the law, and you find glory in God,
18 and know his wil , and tel right from wrong because you have been taught by the Law;	18 and you have known his will, and you demonstrate the more useful things, having been instructed by the law:
19 if you are confident that you are a guide to the blind and a beacon to those in the dark,	19 you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 that you can teach the ignorant and instruct the unlearned because the Law embodies all knowledgeand all truth-	20 an instructor to the foolish, a teacher to children, because you have a type of knowledge and truth in the law.
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?	21 As a result, you teach others, but you do not teach yourself. You preach that men should not steal, but you yourself steal.
22 You say that adultery is forbidden, but do you commit adultery? You detest the worship of objects, butdo you desecrate holy things yourself?	22 You speak against adultery, but you commit adultery. You abominate idols, but you commit sacrilege.
23 If, while you are boasting of the Law, you disobey it, then you are bringing God into contempt.	23 You would glory in the law, but through a betrayal of the law you dishonor God.
24 As scripture says: It is your fault that the name of God is held in contempt among the nations.	24 (For because of you the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles, just as it was written.)
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.	25 Certainly, circumcision is beneficial, if you observe the law. But if you are a betrayer of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
26 And if an uncircumcised man keeps the commands of the Law, wil not his uncircumcised state countas circumcision?	26 And so, if the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this lack of circumcision be counted as circumcision?
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.	27 And that which is by nature uncircumcised, if it fulfills the law, should it not judge you, who by the letter and by circumcision are a betrayer of the law?
28 Being a Jew is not only having the outward appearance of a Jew, and circumcision is not only avisible physical operation.	28 For a Jew is not he who seems so outwardly. Neither is circumcision that which seems so outwardly, in the flesh.
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.	29 But a Jew is he who is so inwardly. And circumcision of the heart is in the spirit, not in the letter. For its praise is not of men, but of God.