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| 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, every one who judgest, for in that in which thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. |
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| 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who do such things. |
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| 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and practisest them thyself, that *thou* shalt escape the judgment of God? |
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| 4 or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance? |
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| 5 but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, |
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| 6 who shall render to each according to his works: |
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| 7 to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal. |
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| 8 But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation, |
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| 9 tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek; |
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| 10 but glory and honour and peace to every one that works good, both to Jew first and to Greek: |
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| 11 for there is no acceptance of persons with God. |
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| 12 For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law, |
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| 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. |
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| 14 For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves; |
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| 15 who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;) |
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| 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ. |
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| 17 But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God, |
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| 18 and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; |
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| 19 and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness, |
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| 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: |
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| 21 thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal? |
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| 22 thou that sayest man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? |
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| 23 thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God? |
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| 24 For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written. |
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| 25 For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep the law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. |
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| 26 If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision, |
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| 27 and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, art a law-transgressor? |
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| 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh; |
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| 29 but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. |
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