Romans 2
Reading Romans chapter 2 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practise the same things.
2 We know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those who practise such things.
3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practise such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgement of God?
4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgement of God,
6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honour, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
8 but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
10 But glory, honour, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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