2:1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

2:2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

2:3And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

2:6Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

2:7To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

2:8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

2:9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

2:11For there is no respect of persons with God.

2:12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

2:14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

2:15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

2:16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

2:17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

2:18And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

2:19And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

2:20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

2:21Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

2:22Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

2:23Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

2:24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

2:25For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

2:26Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

2:27And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

2:28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

2:29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

3:1What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

3:2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

3:3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

3:5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

3:6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

3:7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

3:8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

3:9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

3:10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

3:14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

3:16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

3:17And the way of peace have they not known:

3:18There is no fear of God before their eyes.

3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

3:21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

3:22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

3:23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

3:24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

3:25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

3:26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

3:27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

3:29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

3:30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.