| Holman Christian Standard Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Therefore, any 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, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. |
| 2We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth. | 2And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. |
| 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? | 3But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? |
| 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 do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? |
| 5But because of your hardness 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 stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, |
| 6He will repay each one according to his works: | 6who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: |
| 7eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality; | 7to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; |
| 8but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness; | 8but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation. |
| 9affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek; | 9There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek, |
| 10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does what is good, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. | 10but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. |
| 11There is no favoritism with God. | 11For there is no partiality with God. |
| 12All those who sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law. | 12For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without 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 declared righteous. | 13for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. |
| 14So, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, instinctively do what the law demands, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the law. | 14For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, |
| 15They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts. Their consciences confirm this. Their competing thoughts will either accuse or excuse them | 15in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, |
| 16on the day when God judges what people have kept secret, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus. | 16on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus. |
| 17Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rest in the law, boast in God, | 17But if you bear the name "Jew " and rely upon the Law and boast in God, |
| 18know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law, | 18and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law, |
| 19and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness, | 19and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, |
| 20an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of the immature, having the full expression of knowledge and truth in the law-- | 20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth, |
| 21you then, who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach, "You must not steal"--do you steal? | 21you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal? |
| 22You who say, "You must not commit adultery"--do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples? | 22You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? |
| 23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? | 23You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? |
| 24For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. | 24For "THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written. |
| 25For circumcision benefits you if you observe the law, but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. | 25For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. |
| 26Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law's requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision? | 26So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? |
| 27A man who is physically uncircumcised, but who fulfills the law, will judge you who are a lawbreaker in spite of having the letter of the law and circumcision. | 27And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law? |
| 28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh. | 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. |
| 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 man's praise is not from men but from God. | 29But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. |
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