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Romans 2

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Romans 2 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

ASV: 1ASV

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.

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We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

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And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things.

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Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

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Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

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but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

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who will render to every man according to his works:

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to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

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but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

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but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

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oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

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But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

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For there is no partiality with God.

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for there is no respect of persons with God.

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For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

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For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

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(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

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in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

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in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them);

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in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

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in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.

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Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

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But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

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know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

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You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

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thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

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You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

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thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?

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You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

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thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?

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For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

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For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

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If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?

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Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

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but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

ASV: 29ASV

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.