New American Standard Bible 2020

Romans 2:1-15

1Therefore you have 1no excuse, 2you foolish person, 3everyone of you who passes judgment; for 4in that matter in which 5you judge someone else, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2And we know that the judgment of God 6rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3But do you suppose this, 7 8you foolish person who passes judgment on those who practice such things, and yet does them as well, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4Or do you think lightly of 9the riches of His 10kindness and 11 12restraint and 13patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5But 14because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart 15you are storing up wrath for yourself 16on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 17who will repay each person according to his deeds: 7to those who by 18perseverance in doing good seek 19glory, honor, and 20immortality, He will give 21eternal life; 8but to those who are 22self-serving and 23do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, He will give wrath and indignation. 9There will be 24tribulation and distress 25for every soul of mankind who does evil, 26for the Jew 27first and also 28for the Greek, 10but 29glory, honor, and peace to everyone who does what is good, to the Jew 30first and also to the Greek. 11For 31there is no partiality with God.

12For all who have sinned 32 33without the Law will also perish 34without the Law, and all who have sinned 35under the Law will be judged 36by the Law; 13for it is 37not the hearers 38of the Law who are 39righteous before God, but the doers 40of the Law who will be justified. 14For when Gentiles who do not have 41the Law 42 43instinctively perform the requirements of the Law, these, though not having 44the Law, are a law to themselves, 15in that they show 45the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

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1. Romans 2:1 Rom 1:20 ↩
2. Romans 2:1 Lit O ↩
3. Romans 2:1 Luke 12:14; Rom 2:3; 9:20 ↩
4. Romans 2:1 Or when you judge ↩
5. Romans 2:1 2 Sam 12:5-7; Matt 7:1; Luke 6:37; Rom 14:22 ↩
6. Romans 2:2 Lit is according to truth against ↩
7. Romans 2:3 Lit O ↩
8. Romans 2:3 Luke 12:14; Rom 2:1; 9:20 ↩
9. Romans 2:4 Rom 9:23; 11:33; 2 Cor 8:2; Eph 1:7, 18; 2:7; Phil 4:19; Col 1:27; 2:2; Titus 3:6 ↩
10. Romans 2:4 Rom 11:22 ↩
11. Romans 2:4 I.e., from inflicting punishment ↩
12. Romans 2:4 Rom 3:25 ↩
13. Romans 2:4 Ex 34:6; Rom 9:22; 1 Tim 1:16; 1 Pet 3:20; 2 Pet 3:9, 15 ↩
14. Romans 2:5 Or in accordance with ↩
15. Romans 2:5 Deut 32:34f; Prov 1:18 ↩
16. Romans 2:5 Ps 110:5; Isa 13:13; 2 Cor 5:10; 2 Thess 1:5; Jude 6 ↩
17. Romans 2:6 Ps 62:12; Prov 24:12; Matt 16:27 ↩
18. Romans 2:7 Luke 8:15; Heb 10:36 ↩
19. Romans 2:7 Rom 2:10; Heb 2:7; 1 Pet 1:7 ↩
20. Romans 2:7 1 Cor 15:42, 50, 53f; Eph 6:24; 2 Tim 1:10 ↩
21. Romans 2:7 Matt 25:46 ↩
22. Romans 2:8 2 Cor 12:20; Gal 5:20; Phil 1:17; 2:3; James 3:14, 16 ↩
23. Romans 2:8 2 Thess 2:12 ↩
24. Romans 2:9 Rom 8:35 ↩
25. Romans 2:9 Lit upon ↩
26. Romans 2:9 Lit of the ↩
27. Romans 2:9 Acts 3:26; Rom 1:16; 1 Pet 4:17 ↩
28. Romans 2:9 Lit of the ↩
29. Romans 2:10 Rom 2:7; Heb 2:7; 1 Pet 1:7 ↩
30. Romans 2:10 Rom 2:9 ↩
31. Romans 2:11 Deut 10:17; Acts 10:34 ↩
32. Romans 2:12 Or without law ↩
33. Romans 2:12 Acts 2:23; 1 Cor 9:21 ↩
34. Romans 2:12 Or without law ↩
35. Romans 2:12 Or under law ↩
36. Romans 2:12 Or by law ↩
37. Romans 2:13 Matt 7:21, 24ff; John 13:17; James 1:22f, 25 ↩
38. Romans 2:13 Or of law ↩
39. Romans 2:13 Or just ↩
40. Romans 2:13 Or of law ↩
41. Romans 2:14 Or law ↩
42. Romans 2:14 Lit by nature ↩
43. Romans 2:14 Acts 10:35; Rom 1:19; 2:15 ↩
44. Romans 2:14 Or law ↩
45. Romans 2:15 Rom 2:14, 27 ↩

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