God's Righteous Judgment
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Therefore you have 1no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For 2in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.
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We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.
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Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God?
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Or do you presume on 3the riches of his kindness and 4forbearance and 5patience, 6not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are 7storing up 8wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
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to those who 10by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
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but for those who are self-seekinga and 11do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
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There will be tribulation and distress 12for every human being who does evil, the Jew 13first and also the Greek,
God's Judgment and the Law
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For all who have sinned 17without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
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For 18it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
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For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, 19by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.
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They show that the work of the law is 20written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them
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and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;
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and if you are sure that you yourself are 26a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law 27the embodiment of 28knowledge and truth--
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29you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
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You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you 30rob temples?
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For circumcision indeed is of value 35if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.
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So, if 36a man who is uncircumcised keeps 37the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regardedb as circumcision?
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)