Romans redux (ch.2)
2:1 Therefore you are without excuse, Person-who-is-judging-everyone, for in judging another you are condemning yourself, for you the one judging are practicing the same things! 2 However we know that God’s judgment is according to truth, upon those who are practicing such things.
3 But are you counting on this, Person–judging-those-practicing-such-things-yet-doing-them-yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?? 4 Or are you despising the wealth of his goodness, tolerance, and patience, not knowing that God’s goodness is leading you to repentance?
5 Now according to your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the Day of wrath and revelation of God’s righteous judgment!
6 “He will pay back each according to his works” (Psa 62:2; Prov 24:12):
7 On the one hand, just as [there will be] Eternal Life to those who by perseverance of good work are seeking glory and honor and immortality, 8 on the other hand [there will be] wrath and anger to those who [live] out of selfish ambition and are disbelieving the truth, yet being persuaded by unrighteousness.
9 There will be tribulation and distress on every human soul who is practicing evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone producing good, to the Jew first and also the Greek. 11 For there is no favoritism with God.
12 For as many as sinned without Law, without Law they will be destroyed. And as many as sinned within Law, through Law they will be judged. 13 For it is not the hearers of Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of Law will be justified. (14 For when the Gentiles, who don’t have Law, are doing Law by nature, these who don’t have Law are a law to themselves. 15 Whoever they be, they are showing the work of Law written in their hearts, as conscience is bearing witness to them and conflicting thoughts accusing or else defending them 16 on the day when God judges the secrets of humans according to my gospel through the Messiah Jesus.)
17 But if you, being called a Jew and resting on Law and boasting in God 18 and are knowing his will and approving of the essential things because you are being instructed from Law, 19 and are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to the ones in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have the outward appearance of knowledge and of the truth by Law…
21 therefore you who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself?! You who are preaching ‘do not steal,’ do you steal? 22 You who are tell others ‘do not commit adultery,’ do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, are you committing sacrilege [Gk. “robbing temples”]?
23 Whoever is boasting in Law dishonors God through transgression of Law! 24 For…
“the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (Isa 52:5)
…just as it is written.
25 For on the one hand, circumcision is beneficial if you practice Law, but on the other hand, if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcised man is keeping the righteous requirements of Law, won’t his uncircumcision be considered as circumcision? 27 And won’t the naturally uncircumcised man who is fulfilling Law judge you who, [even] with written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For a Jew is not the one [who is only a Jew] in appearance, nor the one having the appearance of being circumcised in the flesh, 29 but one is a Jew inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart by the Spirit, not of written code. Such a person’s praise is not from humans but from God.
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