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1Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things. | 1Therefore, you have no excuse—every one of you who judges. For when you pass judgment on another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, practice the very same things. |
2We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. | 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who act like this is based on truth. |
3Do you really think--anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same--that you will escape God's judgment? | 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment? |
4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? | 4Or are you unaware of his rich kindness, forbearance, and patience, that it is God's kindness that is leading you to repent? |
5Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment is revealed. | 5But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. |
6He will repay each one according to his works: | 6For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done: |
7eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality; | 7eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good; |
8but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness. | 8but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead. |
9There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek; | 9There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well. |
10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. | 10But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who practices doing good, initially for Jews but also for Greeks as well, |
11For there is no favoritism with God. | 11because God does not show partiality. |
12All who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. | 12For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. |
13For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. | 13For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified. |
14So, when Gentiles, who do not by nature have the law, do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. | 14For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law. |
15They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts either accuse or even excuse them | 15They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them |
16on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus. | 16on that day when God, through Jesus the Messiah, will judge people's secrets according to my gospel. |
17Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law, and boast in God, | 17Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God, |
18and know his will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law, | 18and know his will, and approve of what is best because you have been instructed in the Law; |
19and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, | 19and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, |
20an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and truth in the law-- | 20an instructor of ignorant people, and a teacher of infants because you have the full content of knowledge and truth in the Law— |
21you then, who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach, "You must not steal"--do you steal? | 21as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal? |
22You who say, "You must not commit adultery"--do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples? | 22As you forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? As you abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? | 23As you boast about the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking the Law? |
24For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. | 24As it is written, "God's name is being blasphemed among the gentiles because of you." |
25Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. | 25For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised. |
26So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law's requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? | 26So if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the requirements of the Law, his uncircumcision will be regarded as circumcision, won't it? |
27A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who keeps the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision. | 27The man who is uncircumcised physically but who keeps the Law will condemn you who break the Law, even though you have the written Law and circumcision. |
28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh. | 28For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical. |
29On the contrary, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart--by the Spirit, not the letter. That person's praise is not from people but from God. | 29No, a person is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, brought about by the Spirit, not by a written law. That person's praise will come from God, not from people. |
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