New Revised Standard NRS
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
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 You say, "We know that God's judgment on those who do such things is in accordance with truth."
2
And we are conscious that God is a true judge against those who do such things.
3 Do you imagine, whoever you are, that when you judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself, you will escape the judgment of God?
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 do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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 impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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 For he will repay according to each one's deeds:
6
Who will give to every man his right reward:
7 to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
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 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
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 There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
9
Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also 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 God shows no partiality.
11
For one man is not different from another before God.
12 All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
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 are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
13
For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
14 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.
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 They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them
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 on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
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 if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God
17
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
18 and know his will and determine what is best because you are instructed in the law,
18
And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,
19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,
20
A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
21 you, then, that teach others, will you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
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 that forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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 that boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
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, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
24
For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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 So, if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
26
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
27 Then those who are physically uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
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 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical.
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 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God.
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.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
The Bible in Basic English is in the public domain.