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God's Impartial Judgment and Conscience

Romans 2:1-16

Chapter 2

¹ Therefore you are without excuse, O every man who judges. For in what you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge practice the same things. ² But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things. ³ Do you reckon this, O man—the one who judges those who practice such things and does them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? ⁴ Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? ⁵ But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of the revelation of God's righteous judgment, ⁶ who will give back to each one according to his works ⁷ to those who, on the one hand, by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and imperishability, eternal life ⁸ but to those who are out of selfish ambition and disobey the truth but are persuaded by unrighteousness—wrath and fury, ⁹ Tribulation and distress upon every soul of man who works evil, both Jew first and Greek; ¹⁰ but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek; ¹¹ For there is no partiality with God. ¹² For as many as sin without law will also perish without law, and as many as sin in law will be judged by law. ¹³ For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous before God, but the doers of law will be justified. ¹⁴ For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves. ¹⁵ who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness together and their thoughts accusing or even defending one another, ¹⁶ in the day when God judges the hidden things of humans according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.