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MODERN LITERAL VERSION 2019 VERSION

2:1 Hence O man, you are without defense, everyone who judges; for* in what you are judging the other, you are condemning yourself; for* you who judge are practicing the same things.

2:2 Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things.

2:3 Now O man, who is judging those who practice such things and you are doing* the same things . Are you reasoning this that you will be fleeing from the judgment of God?

2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?

2:5 But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and of revelation and of the righteous judgment of God;

2:6 who will 'repay to each according to his works.' {Pro 24:12b, Psa 62:12}

2:7 Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.

2:8 But to those seeking things out of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath,

2:9 affliction and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek.

2:10 But glory and honor and peace to every man who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek;

2:11 for* there is no favoritism with God.



2:12 For* as many as sinned without the law will also perish without the law. And as many as sinned in the law will be judged through the law.

2:13 For* the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous.

2:14 For* whenever the Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law, are the law to themselves;

2:15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together with their hearts, and between one another, their reasonings are accusing or either defending them;

2:16 in the day when God will be judging the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my teaching of the good-news.



2:17 Behold, you who are named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,

2:18 and know God's will and approve the things which carry more-value, being instructed out of the law,

2:19 and have confidence in yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,

2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.



2:21 Therefore you who are teaching a different one, are you not teaching yourself? You who are preaching not to steal, are you stealing?

2:22 You who are saying to not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? You who detest idols, are you a temple looter?

2:23 You who are boasting in the law, through your transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God?

2:24 'For* the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you*,' just-as it has been written.

2:25 For* circumcision indeed profits, if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. {Isa 52:5}



2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision are observing the ordinances of the law, will his uncircumcision not be counted toward circumcision?

2:27 And the uncircumcision by nature who is completing the law, will be judging you, who are a transgressor of the law through the writing {Or: 'scripture' meaning 'scriptures' also in 2:29, 7:6.}
and circumcision.

2:28 For* he is not a Jew openly; nor is circumcision what is openly in the flesh,

2:29 but he is a Jew in the hidden thing, and the circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.