Romans 2

1Therefore 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 practice the same things.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:5 · Ps 50:16 · Matt 7:1 · Matt 23:29 · Luke 6:37 · Luke 19:22 · +9 more

2We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Job 34:17 · Job 34:23 · Ps 9:4 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 11:5 · +19 more

3Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?Cross-references: 2Sam 10:3 · Job 35:2 · Ps 50:21 · Ps 56:7 · Prov 11:21 · Prov 16:5 · +12 more

4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · Job 33:27 · Ps 10:11 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 86:5 · +40 more

5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,Cross-references: Ex 8:15 · Ex 14:17 · Deut 2:30 · Deut 32:34 · Josh 11:20 · 1Sam 6:6 · +25 more

6who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”Cross-references: Job 34:11 · Ps 62:12 · Prov 24:2 · Prov 24:12 · Isa 3:10 · Jer 17:10 · +12 more

7to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;Cross-references: Job 17:9 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 37:34 · Lam 3:25 · Matt 24:12 · +23 more

8but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,Cross-references: Job 24:13 · Ps 90:11 · Prov 13:10 · Isa 50:10 · Nah 1:6 · John 3:18 · +18 more

9oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.Cross-references: Prov 1:27 · Ezek 18:4 · Amos 3:2 · Matt 11:20 · Matt 16:26 · Luke 2:30 · +24 more

10But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.Cross-references: Num 6:26 · 1Sam 2:30 · Job 22:21 · Ps 15:2 · Ps 29:11 · Ps 37:37 · +37 more

11For there is no partiality with God.Cross-references: Deut 10:17 · Deut 16:19 · 2Chr 19:7 · Job 34:19 · Prov 24:23 · Matt 22:16 · +7 more

12For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.Cross-references: Deut 27:26 · Ezek 16:49 · Matt 11:22 · Matt 11:24 · Luke 10:12 · Luke 12:47 · +16 more

13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justifiedCross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 5:1 · Deut 6:3 · Deut 30:12 · Ps 143:2 · Ezek 20:11 · +19 more

14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · Ps 147:19 · Acts 10:35 · Acts 14:16 · Acts 17:30 · Rom 1:19 · +7 more

15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)Cross-references: Gen 3:8 · Gen 20:5 · Gen 42:21 · 1Ki 2:44 · Job 27:6 · Eccl 7:22 · +10 more

16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ps 9:7 · Ps 50:6 · Ps 96:13 · Ps 98:9 · Eccl 3:17 · +24 more

17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,Cross-references: Ps 135:4 · Isa 45:25 · Isa 48:1 · Jer 7:4 · Mic 3:11 · Zeph 3:11 · +19 more

18know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,Cross-references: Deut 4:8 · Neh 9:13 · Ps 19:8 · Ps 119:98 · Ps 119:104 · Ps 119:130 · +11 more

19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,Cross-references: Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:21 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 49:9 · Isa 56:10 · Matt 4:16 · +15 more

20a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.Cross-references: Matt 11:25 · Rom 6:17 · 1Cor 3:1 · 2Tim 1:13 · 2Tim 3:5 · Titus 1:16 · +2 more

21You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?Cross-references: Ps 50:16 · Isa 56:11 · Ezek 22:12 · Ezek 22:27 · Amos 8:4 · Mic 3:11 · +9 more

22You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?Cross-references: Jer 5:7 · Jer 7:9 · Jer 9:2 · Ezek 22:11 · Mal 1:8 · Mal 1:14 · +6 more

23You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?Cross-references: Jer 8:8 · Matt 19:17 · Luke 10:26 · Luke 18:11 · John 5:45 · John 9:28 · +5 more

24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:14 · Isa 52:5 · Lam 2:15 · Ezek 36:20 · Matt 18:7 · 1Tim 5:14 · +4 more

25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · Jer 4:4 · Jer 9:25 · Acts 7:51 · Rom 2:23 · Rom 2:28 · +4 more

26If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?Cross-references: Isa 56:6 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 15:28 · Acts 10:2 · Acts 10:34 · Acts 11:3 · +6 more

27Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?Cross-references: Ezek 16:48 · Matt 3:15 · Matt 5:17 · Matt 12:41 · Acts 13:22 · Rom 2:20 · +7 more

28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;Cross-references: Ps 73:1 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 48:1 · Jer 9:26 · Hos 1:6 · Matt 3:9 · +8 more

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 from men, but from God.Cross-references: Deut 10:16 · Deut 30:6 · 1Sam 16:7 · 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 45:13 · Jer 4:4 · +18 more