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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Chapter 2
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Therefore 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.
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But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth
against them which commit such things.
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And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of
God?
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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee
to repentance?
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But after thy hardness and impenitent heart
treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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Who will render to
every man according to his deeds:
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To them who by patient
continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality,
eternal life:
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But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey
the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
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Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of
the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
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But glory, honour, and
peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
the Gentile:
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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
law: and as many as have sinned in 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 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:
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Which 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;)
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In the day
when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to
my gospel.
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Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest
thy boast of God,
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And knowest his will, and approvest the things
that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
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And art
confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them
which are in darkness,
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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
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Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?
thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
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Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit
adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
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Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law
dishonourest thou God?
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For the name of God is blasphemed among
the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
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For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if
thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law,
judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the
law?
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For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is
that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
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But 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.
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