Romans 2:9-29

9There will be trouble and hardship for every human soul that does evil—to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

10But there will be glory, honor, and shalom to everyone who does good—to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

11For there is no partiality with God.

12For all who have sinned outside of Torah will also perish outside of Torah, and all who have sinned according to Torah will be judged by Torah.

13For it is not the hearers of Torah who are righteous before God; rather, it is the doers of Torah who will be justified.

14For when Gentiles, who do not have the Torah, do by nature the things of the Torah, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the Torah.

15They show that the work of the Torah is written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts switching between accusing or defending them

16on the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my Good News through Messiah Yeshua.

17But if you call yourself Jewish and rely upon the Torah and boast in God

18and know His will and determine what matters because you are instructed from the Torah—

19and you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Torah the embodiment of knowledge and the truth—

21you then who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

22You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

23You who take pride in the Torah, through your violation of the Torah, do you dishonor God?

24For as it is written, “the name of God is slandered among the nations because of you.”

25Circumcision is indeed worthwhile if you keep the Torah; but if you break the Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

26Therefore, if the uncircumcised keeps the righteous decrees of the Torah, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27Indeed, the one not circumcised physically who fulfills the Torah will judge you who—even with the written code and circumcision—break the Torah.

28For one is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something visible in the flesh.

29Rather, the Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart—in Spirit not in letter. His praise is not from men, but from God.