1You are therefore inexcusable, O man, whoever you are, that sits in judgment; for in judging another you are condemning yourself. You, the judge, are habitually practising the very same things. 2"We know that God’s judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say? 3Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God? 4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and long patience? Do you not know that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance? 5In your hardness and impenitence of heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath on the Day of Wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed. 6For He will render to every man according to his works; 7eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality; 8but anger and wrath upon those who are self-willed and disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness. 9Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practises evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile; 10but glory and honor and peace to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 11For there is no partiality with God. 12For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law. 13For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous. 14For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves. 15For they show that the work of the Law is written in their hearts, while their conscience bears them witness, as their reasonings accuse, or it may be defend, them, 16in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.¶ 17Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God, 18and know his will, and can test the things that differ; if you are instructed out of the Law, 19and are confident that you yourself are a darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the young, because you have in the Law the form of knowledge and of the truth - well then, you who are teaching others, do you ever teach yourself? 21You who are preaching that a man should not steal, do you practise theft? 22You who keep saying that a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hold idols in abhorrence, are you plundering their temples? 23You who are making your boast in the Law, do you habitually dishonor God through your transgressions of the Law? 24For the name of God is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as the Scripture itself says. 25Circumcision does indeed profit, if you are obedient to the Law; but if you habitually break the Law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision. 26So if the uncircumcised keeps the ordinance of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned equivalent to circumcision. 27And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision? 28For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not outward in the flesh; 29but the real Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is heart- circumcision, spiritual, not literal, praised not by men, but by God.¶