Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

God’s Righteous Judgment

Romans 2:¹ Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

• Matthew 7:1 Do Not Judge – “Judge not, that you be not judged”.
• Matthew 7:5 “Hypocrite (Lit. Play-actor, pretender)! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

Romans 2:² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

Romans 2:³ And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

• Judge yourself.
• I Corinthians 11:27-28 Examine Yourself – Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Romans 2:⁴ Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 2:⁵ But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent (unrepentant] heart you are treasuring (storing) up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 2:⁶ who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:

Romans 2:⁷ eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

“What’s the difference between immortality and immorality?
Only one letter, the ‘T’, which is the Cross of Christ.” ~BG

Romans 2:⁸ but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,

Romans 2:⁹ tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek (Gentile);

• Indignation, wrath, tribulation and anguish!

Romans 2:¹⁰ but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Gentile).

Romans 2:¹¹ For there is no partiality with God.

Romans 2:¹² For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law

Romans 2:¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;

Romans 2:¹⁴ for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,

Romans 2:¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)

Romans 2:¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles

Romans 2:¹⁷ (But if) Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest (rely) on the law, and make your boast in God,

Romans 2:¹⁸ and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Romans 2:¹⁹ and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Romans 2:²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.

Romans 2:²¹ You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

 Romans 2:²² You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 2:²³ You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law?

Romans 2:²⁴ For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” as it is written.

Circumcision of No Avail

Romans 2:²⁵ For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become (like) uncircumcision.

Romans 2:²⁶  Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Romans 2:²⁷ And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code (Lit. letter) and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law?

• The difference between Law and Grace is that “Laws” have pre-set boundaries.

Romans 2:²⁸ For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh;

Romans 2:²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise (A play on words—Jew literally means “praise”) is not from men but from God.

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