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Romans 2

The Message Bible MSG

1 Those people are on a dark spiral downward. But if you think that leaves you on the high ground where you can point your finger at others, think again. Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors.

2 But God isn't so easily diverted. He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to what you've done.

3 You didn't think, did you, that just by pointing your finger at others you would distract God from seeing all your misdoings and from coming down on you hard?

4 Or did you think that because he's such a nice God, he'd let you off the hook? Better think this one through from the beginning. God is kind, but he's not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change.

5 You're not getting by with anything. Every refusal and avoidance of God adds fuel to the fire. The day is coming when it's going to blaze hot and high, God's fiery and righteous judgment.

6 Make no mistake: In the end you get what's coming to you -

7 Real Life for those who work on God's side,

8 but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!

9 If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you're from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended.

10 But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up.

11 Being a Jew won't give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.

12 If you sin without knowing what you're doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you're doing, that's a different story entirely.

13 Merely hearing God's law is a waste of your time if you don't do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.

14 When outsiders who have never heard of God's law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience.

15 They show that God's law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God's yes and no, right and wrong.

16 Their response to God's yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman. The Message from God that I proclaim through Jesus Christ takes into account all these differences.

17 If you're brought up Jewish, don't assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you're an insider to God's revelation,

18 a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines!

19 I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God's revealed Word inside and out,

20 feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God.

21 While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I'm quite serious. While preaching "Don't steal!" are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you?

22 The same with adultery. The same with idolatry.

23 You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law.

24 The line from Scripture, "It's because of you Jews that the outsiders are down on God," shows it's an old problem that isn't going to go away.

25 Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God's law. But if you don't, it's worse than not being circumcised.

26 The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God's ways are as good as the circumcised -

27 in fact, better. Better to keep God's law uncircumcised than break it circumcised.

28 Don't you see: It's not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew.

29 You become a Jew by who you are. It's the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 propter quod inexcusabilis es o homo omnis qui iudicas in quo enim iudicas alterum te ipsum condemnas eadem enim agis qui iudicas

2 scimus enim quoniam iudicium Dei est secundum veritatem in eos qui talia agunt

3 existimas autem hoc o homo qui iudicas eos qui talia agunt et facis ea quia tu effugies iudicium Dei

4 an divitias bonitatis eius et patientiae et longanimitatis contemnis ignorans quoniam benignitas Dei ad paenitentiam te adducit

5 secundum duritiam autem tuam et inpaenitens cor thesaurizas tibi iram in die irae et revelationis iusti iudicii Dei

6 qui reddet unicuique secundum opera eius

7 his quidem qui secundum patientiam boni operis gloriam et honorem et incorruptionem quaerentibus vitam aeternam

8 his autem qui ex contentione et qui non adquiescunt veritati credunt autem iniquitati ira et indignatio

9 tribulatio et angustia in omnem animam hominis operantis malum Iudaei primum et Graeci

10 gloria autem et honor et pax omni operanti bonum Iudaeo primum et Graeco

11 non est enim personarum acceptio apud Deum

12 quicumque enim sine lege peccaverunt sine lege et peribunt et quicumque in lege peccaverunt per legem iudicabuntur

13 non enim auditores legis iusti sunt apud Deum sed factores legis iustificabuntur

14 cum enim gentes quae legem non habent naturaliter quae legis sunt faciunt eiusmodi legem non habentes ipsi sibi sunt lex

15 qui ostendunt opus legis scriptum in cordibus suis testimonium reddente illis conscientia ipsorum et inter se invicem cogitationum accusantium aut etiam defendentium

16 in die cum iudicabit Deus occulta hominum secundum evangelium meum per Iesum Christum

17 si autem tu Iudaeus cognominaris et requiescis in lege et gloriaris in Deo

18 et nosti voluntatem et probas utiliora instructus per legem

19 confidis te ipsum ducem esse caecorum lumen eorum qui in tenebris sunt

20 eruditorem insipientium magistrum infantium habentem formam scientiae et veritatis in lege

21 qui ergo alium doces te ipsum non doces qui praedicas non furandum furaris

22 qui dicis non moechandum moecharis qui abominaris idola sacrilegium facis

23 qui in lege gloriaris per praevaricationem legis Deum inhonoras

24 nomen enim Dei per vos blasphematur inter gentes sicut scriptum est

25 circumcisio quidem prodest si legem observes si autem praevaricator legis sis circumcisio tua praeputium facta est

26 si igitur praeputium iustitias legis custodiat nonne praeputium illius in circumcisionem reputabitur

27 et iudicabit quod ex natura est praeputium legem consummans te qui per litteram et circumcisionem praevaricator legis es

28 non enim qui in manifesto Iudaeus est neque quae in manifesto in carne circumcisio

29 sed qui in abscondito Iudaeus et circumcisio cordis in spiritu non littera cuius laus non ex hominibus sed ex Deo est