Romans 2:5-16

5Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.

6He will pay all people back for what they have done.

7He will give everlasting life to those who search for glory, honor, and immortality by persisting in doing what is good. But he will bring

8anger and fury on those who, in selfish pride, refuse to believe the truth and who follow what is wrong.

9There will be suffering and distress for every person who does evil, for Jews first and Greeks as well.

10But there will be glory, honor, and peace for every person who does what is good, for Jews first and Greeks as well.

11God does not play favorites.

12Here’s the reason: Whoever sins without having the laws in Moses’ Teachings will still be condemned to destruction. And whoever has these laws from God and sins will still be judged by them.

13People who merely listen to the laws in Moses’ Teachings don’t have God’s approval. Rather, people who do what those laws demand will have God’s approval.

14For example, whenever non-Jews who don’t have the laws in Moses’ Teachings do by nature the things that those laws contain, they are a law to themselves even though they don’t have any of those laws.

15They show that some requirements found in Moses’ Teachings are written in their hearts. Their consciences speak to them. Their thoughts accuse them on one occasion and defend them on another.

16This happens as they face the day when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge people’s secret thoughts. He will use the Good News that I am spreading to make that judgment.