Romans 2

God's Just Judgment Romans 2:6–10

⁶Verse 6. who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” ⁷Verse 7. to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; ⁸Verse 8. but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, ⁹Verse 9. oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. ¹⁰Verse 10. But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Accountability Without Favoritism Romans 2:11–16

¹¹Verse 11. For there is no partiality with God. ¹²Verse 12. For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³Verse 13. For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified ¹⁴Verse 14. (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵Verse 15. in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

¹⁶Verse 16. in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

The Hypocrisy of Teaching Romans 2:17–24

¹⁷Verse 17. Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, ¹⁸Verse 18. and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹Verse 19. and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, ²⁰Verse 20. a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. ²¹Verse 21. You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? ²²Verse 22. You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²³Verse 23. You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law? ²⁴Verse 24. For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

True Circumcision and Identity Romans 2:25–29

²⁵Verse 25. For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. ²⁶Verse 26. If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? ²⁷Verse 27. Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? ²⁸Verse 28. For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; ²⁹Verse 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 is not from men, but from God.