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| Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. | |
| And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. | |
| But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same {yourself,} that you will escape the judgment of God? | |
| Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? | |
| But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, | |
| who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: | |
| to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; | |
| but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. | |
| {There will be} tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, | |
| but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. | |
| For there is no partiality with God. | |
| For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; | |
| for {it is} not the hearers of the Law {who} are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. | |
| For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, | |
| in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, | |
| on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. | |
| But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law and boast in God, | |
| and know {His} will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, | |
| and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, | |
| a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, | |
| you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? | |
| You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? | |
| You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? | |
| For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written. | |
| For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. | |
| So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? | |
| And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter {of the Law} and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law? | |
| For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. | |
| But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. |
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