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

² Now we know that the judgment of God is according-to truth upon the ones practicing such things.

³ Now O man, he who is judging the ones practicing such things and you are doing$ the same things, are you reasoning this thing: you will be fleeing away from the judgment of God? {i.e., judging another will not make you clean.}

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?

⁵ But you are storing 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,

⁶ who will ‘repay to each according-to his works,’ {Pro 24:12b, Psa 62:12}

⁷ everlasting life to the ones who indeed by endurance of good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.

⁸ But to the ones who are out-of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey the unrighteousness, he will repay with fury and wrath,

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

¹⁰ But glory and honor and peace to everyone who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,

¹¹ for$ there is no favoritism with God.

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.

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

¹⁴ For$ whenever the Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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 even defending them,

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

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

¹⁸ and know God’s will and approve the things which are carrying more-value, being instructed out-of the law,

¹⁹ and have confidence in yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of the ones in darkness,

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

²¹ Therefore, the one teaching a different one, are you not teaching yourself? The one preaching not to steal, are you stealing?

²² The one saying to not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? The one detesting idols, are you a temple looter?

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

²⁴ ‘For$ the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you°,’ just-as it has been written.

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

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

²⁷ And the man from the natural uncircumcision 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.

²⁸ For$ the one is not a Jew openly; nor is circumcision the one openly in the flesh,

²⁹ but the one is a Jew in the secret thing, and the circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in the writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.