God’s coming judgment
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📚✭Therefore, you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things. 2 📚✭But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things. 3 📚✭And do you think, O man who judges those who do such things and does the same things, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 📚✭Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance✭?5 📚But in accordance with your hardness and unrepentant heart you heap up for yourself wrath for the day of wrath✭ and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 📚who will give to each person according to his deeds. 7 📚✭To those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory and honour and immortality he will give eternal life. 8 📚But to those who are self-seeking✭ and do not obey the truth, but yield to unrighteousness, he will show anger and wrath. 9 📚✭Tribulation and anguish will come on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; 10 📚but glory, honour, and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 11 📚✭For there is no favoritism with God.
12 📚✭For 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. 13 📚✭(For not those who hear the Law are righteous in God’s sight, but those who obey the Law will be declared righteous. 14 📚✭For when the Gentiles, who do not have the Law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, they are a law for themselves, though they do not have the Law. 15 📚They show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience✭ also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing or else defending them.) 16 📚Thus it will be on the day when God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
The sinful condition of the Jews
17 📚✭Look, you are called a Jew, and rely on the Law, and make your boast in God, 18 📚✭and know his will, and approve the things that are superior because you are instructed out of the Law. 19 📚And you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 📚an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the Law. 21 📚You, therefore, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 📚You who say that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 📚You who make your boast in the Law, through breaking the Law do you dishonour God? 24 📚✭For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 📚✭For circumcision indeed has its value, if you keep the Law. But if you are a breaker of the Law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 📚Therefore if one who is uncircumcised follows the righteousness of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 📚And will not one who is uncircumcised by nature, if he fulfils the Law, judge you who with the written Law and circumcision transgress the Law?