2 ¹ Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgement upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2 ² We know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who do such things. 2 ³ Do you suppose, O man, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God? 2 ⁴ Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 2 ⁵ But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. 2 ⁶ For he will render to every man according to his works: 2 ⁷ to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life; 2 ⁸ but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. 2 ⁹ There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 2 ¹⁰ but glory and honour and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 2 ¹¹ For God shows no partiality.

2 ¹² All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 2 ¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 2 ¹⁴ When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 2 ¹⁵ They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or perhaps excuse them 2 ¹⁶ on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.