Rom 2
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Wherefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judge: for wherein you
judges another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge do practise the same things.
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And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise
such things.
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And reckon you this, O man, who judge them that practise such things, and do the same,
that you shall escape the judgment of God?
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Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and patient, not knowing
that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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but after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up for yourself anger in the
day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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who will render to every man according to his works:
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to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption,
eternal life:
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but to them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall
be] anger and indignation,
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tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first,
and also of the Greek;
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but glory and honor and peace to every man that works good, to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek:
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for there is no respect of persons with God.
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For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many
as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
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for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall
be justified:
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(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these,
not having the law, are the law to themselves;
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in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing
witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing [them]);
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in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus
Christ.
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But if you bear the name of a Jew, and rest upon the law, and glory in God,
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and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out
of the law,
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and art confident that you yourself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that
are in darkness,
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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge
and of the truth;
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you therefore that teach another, teach you not yourself? you that preach a man should
not steal, do you steal?
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you that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor
idols, do you rob temples?
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you who glory in the law, through your transgression of the law dishonor you God?
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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is
written.
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For circumcision indeed profits, if you be a doer of the law: but if you be a transgressor
of the law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision.
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If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision
be reckoned for circumcision?
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and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfill the law, judge
you, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward
in the flesh:
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but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.