Romans 2
1Therefore, you have no legal defense, O human—every one of you who sits in judgment. For in the very matter where you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who are judging practice the same things. 2Now we know that God’s verdict against those who practice such things is based on reality. 3Do you calculate this, O human—you who judge those practicing such things while doing them yourself—that you will escape the verdict of God? 4Or do you look down on the wealth of his kindness, his forbearance, and his patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you toward a radical change of heart?
5But because of your stubbornness and your heart’s refusal to change, you are storing up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath, when the justice of God's judgment will be fully revealed. 6He will pay back to each person according to their deeds: 7to those who, by enduring in good work, seek glory, honor, and incorruptibility, he will give eternal life; 8but for those who act out of partisan ambition and who disobey the truth but obey injustice, there will be wrath and fury. 9There will be crushing pressure and distress for every human soul that produces evil, for the Jew first and also for the Greek; 10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who works what is good, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 11For there is no partiality with God.
12For as many as have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law; and as many as have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. 13For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law who will be vindicated as just. 14For whenever the nations, who do not have the Law, do by nature what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves even though they do not have the Law. 15They demonstrate that the work required by the Law is written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness with them, and their own thoughts accusing or even defending them among themselves 16on the day when, according to my good news, God judges the secrets of humanity through Christ Jesus.
17But if you call yourself a "Jew" and rely on the Law and boast in God, 18and if you know his will and can distinguish what is essential because you are instructed by the Law, 19and if you are convinced that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, and a teacher of infants—possessing the very embodiment of knowledge and truth in the Law— 21you then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples? 23You who boast in the Law, do you dishonor God by breaking that Law? 24As it is written: “The name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you.”
25For circumcision is indeed beneficial if you practice the Law; but if you are a law-breaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26So if the uncircumcised man keeps the just requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision? 27Then the one who is physically uncircumcised but fulfills the Law will judge you, the one who breaks the Law despite having the written code and circumcision. 28For a person is not a Jew because of what is visible on the outside, nor is true circumcision something visible in the flesh. 29Rather, a person is a Jew in the hidden place, and circumcision is of the heart—a matter of the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person’s praise comes not from humans, but from God.