1 | Therefore
thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou
judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same
things. |
2 | But we are sure
that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such
things. |
3 | And thinkest
thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same,
that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? |
4 | Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and
forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth
thee to repentance? |
5 | But
after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath
against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; |
6 |
Who will render to every
man according to his deeds:
Prov 24:12
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7 |
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour
and immortality, eternal life: |
8
| But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but
obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, |
9 | Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that
doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; |
10 | But glory, honour, and peace, to every
man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: |
11 | For there is no respect of persons
with God. |
12 | For as many
as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have
sinned in the law shall 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. |
14 | For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by
nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law
unto themselves: |
15 |
Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also
bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing
one another;) |
16 | In the
day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my
gospel. |
17 | Behold, thou
art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, |
18 | And knowest his will, and
approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the
law; |
19 | And art
confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are
in darkness, |
20 | An
instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge
and of the truth in the law. |
21
| Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou
that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? |
22 | Thou that sayest a man should not
commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost
thou commit sacrilege? |
23 |
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
dishonourest thou God? |
24 |
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is
written.
Ezek 36:20,
23
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25 | For
circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker
of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. |
26 | Therefore if the uncircumcision keep
the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for
circumcision? |
27 | And
shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee,
who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? |
28 | For he is not a Jew, which is one
outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: |
29 | But he is a Jew, which is
one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in
the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |