ahCited from Isa. 52:5
bcCited from Ps. 51:4 (Gk.)
bpCited from Ps. 5:9
brCited from Ps. 140:3
bsCited from Ps. 10:7 (Gk.)
btCited from Prov. 1:16; ver. 15-17, cited from Isa. 59:7, 8
bvCited from Ps. 36:1

Romans 2

God’s Righteous Judgment

1Therefore you have ano excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For bin passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourselfthat you will escape the judgment of God? 4Or do you presume on cthe riches of his kindness and dforbearance and epatience, fnot knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are gstoring up hwrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

6 iHe will render to each one according to his works: 7to those who jby patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8but for those who are self-seeking
Or contentious
and ldo not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
9There will be tribulation and distress mfor every human being who does evil, the Jew nfirst and also the Greek, 10but glory and honor and opeace for everyone who does good, pthe Jew first and also the Greek. 11For qGod shows no partiality.

God’s Judgment and the Law

12For all who have sinned rwithout the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13For sit is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, tby nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15They show that the work of the law is uwritten on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 von that day when, waccording to my gospel, God judges xthe secrets of men yby Christ Jesus.

17But if you call yourself a Jew and zrely on the law and boast in God 18and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19and if you are sure that you yourself are aaa guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law abthe embodiment of acknowledge and truth 21 adyou then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you aerob temples? 23You who afboast in the law agdishonor God by breaking the law. 24For, ahas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed aiamong the Gentiles because of you.”

25For circumcision indeed is of value ajif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26So, if aka man who is uncircumcised keeps althe precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded
Or counted
as circumcision?
27Then he who is physically
Or  is by nature
uncircumcised but keeps the law aowill condemn you who have apthe written code
Or  the letter
and circumcision but break the law.
28For arno one is a Jew aswho is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29But a Jew is one atinwardly, and aucircumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. avHis praise is not from man but from God.

Romans 3:1-29

God’s Righteousness Upheld

1Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2Much in every way. To begin with, awthe Jews were entrusted with axthe oracles of God. 3 ayWhat if some were unfaithful? azDoes their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4By no means! baLet God be true though bbevery one were a liar, as it is written,

bcThat you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you bdare judged.”
5But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict bewrath on us? ( bfI speak in a human way.) 6By no means! For then how could bgGod judge the world? 7But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, bhwhy am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8And why not bido evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

No One Is Righteous

9What then? Are we Jews
Greek  Are we
any better off?
Or at any disadvantage?
No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both blJews and bmGreeks, are bnunder sin,
10as it is written:

bo“None is righteous, no, not one;
11no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 bpTheir throat is bqan open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
br“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 bsTheir mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 btTheir feet are swift to shed blood;
16in their paths are ruin and misery,
17and buthe way of peace they have not known.”
18 bv“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19Now we know that whatever bwthe law says it speaks to those who are under the law, bxso that every mouth may be stopped, and bythe whole world may be held accountable to God. 20For bzby works of the law no human being
Greek flesh
will be justified in his sight, since cbthrough the law comes knowledge of sin.

The Righteousness of God Through Faith

21But now ccthe righteousness of God cdhas been manifested apart from the law, although cethe Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22the righteousness of God cfthrough faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. cgFor there is no distinction: 23for chall have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 ciand are justified cjby his grace as a gift, ckthrough the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God clput forward as cma propitiation cnby his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in cohis divine forbearance he had passed over cpformer sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

27 cqThen what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28For we hold that one is justified by faith crapart from works of the law. 29Or csis God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
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