1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judge: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge participate in the same things. 2And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who participate in such things. 3And reckon this, O man, who judge those who participate in such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; 6who will render to every man according to his works: 7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: 8but to those who are factious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [will be] wrath and indignation, 9tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; 10but glory and honor and peace to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: 11for there is no respect of persons with God. 12For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law; 13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law will be justified: 14(for when Gentiles that don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law to themselves; 15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with them, and their thoughts one with another accusing or excusing [them]); 16in the day when God judges the secrets of men, according to my good news, by Christ Jesus. 17But if you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, 18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, 20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of juveniles, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; 21you therefore that teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach a man should not steal, do you steal? 22You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples? 23You who glory in the law, through your transgression of the law do you dishonor God? 24For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you{+}, even as it is written. 25For circumcision indeed profits, if you participate in the law: but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26If therefore the uncircumcision keeps the ordinances of the law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision? 27And will not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29but 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.