1: Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou
art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest
thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. |
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2: But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth
against them which commit such things. |
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And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such
things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
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4: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to
repentance? |
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5: But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto
thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous
judgment of God; |
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6: Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
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7: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for
glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: |
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8: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,
but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, |
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9: Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth
evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; |
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10: But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good,
to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: |
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11: For there is no respect of persons with God. |
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12: For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish
without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by
the 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 the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature
the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law
unto themselves: |
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15: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while
accusing or else excusing one another;) |
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16: In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus
Christ according to my gospel. |
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17: Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and
makest thy boast of God, |
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18: And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more
excellent, being instructed out of the law; |
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19: And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind,
a light of them which are in darkness, |
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20: An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast
the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. |
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21: Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not
thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
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22: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou
commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
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23: Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the
law dishonourest thou God? |
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24: For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through
you, as it is written. |
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25: For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but
if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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26: Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the
law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? |
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27: And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it
fulfill the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost
transgress the law? |
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28: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: |
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29: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is
that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is
not of men, but of God. |