Romans 2:5-16

5But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

6He will judge everyone according to what they have done.

7He will give eternal life to those who keep on doing good, seeking after the glory and honor and immortality that God offers.

8But he will pour out his anger and wrath on those who live for themselves, who refuse to obey the truth and instead live lives of wickedness.

9There will be trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.

10But there will be glory and honor and peace from God for all who do good—for the Jew first and also for the Gentile.

11For God does not show favoritism.

12When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.

13For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight.

14Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it.

15They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right.

16And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.