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Romans 2

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, passing judgment; for when you judge someone else, you are passing judgment against yourself; since you who are judging do the same things he does.

2 We know that God's judgment lands impartially on those who do such things;

3 do you think that you, a mere man passing judgment on others who do such things, yet doing them yourself, will escape the judgment of God?

4 Or perhaps you despise the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience; because you don't realize that God's kindness is intended to lead you to turn from your sins.

5 But by your stubbornness, by your unrepentant heart, you are storing up anger for yourself on the Day of Anger, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed;

6 for he will pay back each one according to his deeds.

7 To those who seek glory, honor and immortality by perseverance in doing good, he will pay back eternal life.

8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey evil, he will pay back wrath and anger.

9 Yes, he will pay back misery and anguish to every human being who does evil, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile;

10 but glory and honor and shalom to everyone who keeps doing what is good, to the Jew first, then to the Gentile.

11 For God does not show favoritism.

12 All who have sinned outside the framework of Torah will die outside the framework of Torah; and all who have sinned within the framework of Torah will be judged by Torah.

13 For it is not merely the hearers of Torah whom God considers righteous; rather, it is the doers of what Torah says who will be made righteous in God's sight.

14 For whenever Gentiles, who have no Torah, do naturally what the Torah requires, then these, even though they don't have Torah, for themselves are Torah!

15 For their lives show that the conduct the Torah dictates is written in their hearts. Their consciences also bear witness to this, for their conflicting thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them

16 on a day when God passes judgment on people's inmost secrets. (According to the Good News as I proclaim it, he does this through the Messiah Yeshua.)

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rest on Torah and boast about God

18 and know his will and give your approval to what is right, because you have been instructed from the Torah;

19 and if you have persuaded yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light in the darkness,

20 an instructor for the spiritually unaware and a teacher of children, since in the Torah you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth;

21 then, you who teach others, don't you teach yourself? Preaching, "Thou shalt not steal," do you steal?

22 Saying, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? Detesting idols, do you commit idolatrous acts?

23 You who take such pride in Torah, do you, by disobeying the Torah, dishonor God? -

24 as it says in the Tanakh, "For it is because of you that God's name is blasphemed by the Goyim."

25 For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision!

26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won't his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27 Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a b'rit-milah and have Torah written out but violate it!

28 For the real Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not only external and physical.

29 On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things.

2 And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.

3 But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?

4 Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

6 Who will give to every man his right reward:

7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:

8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

10 But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:

11 For one man is not different from another before God.

12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

13 For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:

14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

15 Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

16 In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,

18 And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,

19 In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

20 A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;

21 You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

22 You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.

25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.

26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?

27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.

28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.