1Therefore you have no excuse, anyone who judges others. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, because you who judge practice the very same things.
2We know that God’s judgment is based on truth against those who practice such things.
3So, a person who judges others for doing such things, but does them himself, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
4Or do you show contempt for the richness of his kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to change your ways?
5But because you are stubborn and refuse to change your heart, you are storing up anger for yourself on the day God shows his anger and righteous judgment.
6He will repay each person according to what they have done.
7He will give eternal life to those who patiently do good, seeking glory, honor, and a life that cannot decay.
8But to those who are selfish, who disobey the truth and obey evil, he will bring anger and rage.
9All people who do evil, first the Jews and then the Greeks, will experience trouble and distress.
10But glory, honor, and peace will come to everyone who does good, first to the Jew and then to the Greek.
11For God does not show favoritism.
12Everyone who sins without having the law will also perish without the law. And everyone who sins while having the law will be judged by the law.
13For it is not simply hearing the law that makes people right with God, but obeying the law makes them right.
14(For when non-Jews, who do not have the law, naturally do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even without having the law.
15They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, and their own consciences confirm this. Their thoughts will either accuse them or excuse them)
16on the day when God will judge people's secret lives through Jesus Christ, as announced in my Good News.
17You call yourself a Jew, you rely on the law, and you brag about your relationship with God.
18You know God's will and understand what is best because you have been taught by the law.
19You are convinced that you can guide the blind, be a light to those in darkness,
20correct the foolish, and teach those who are like infants, because you have the exact knowledge and truth from the law.
21So, you who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
22You who say that people shouldn't commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who hate idols, do you rob temples?
23You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
24As it is written: "God's name is insulted among the non-Jews because of you."
25Circumcision is valuable if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is as good as uncircumcision.
26So if an uncircumcised person follows the rules of the law, will not his uncircumcision be considered circumcision?
27Indeed, a person who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you, who, despite having the written law and circumcision, break the law.
28For a true Jew is not just someone who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision merely an outward physical act.
29Instead, a true Jew is one inwardly, and real circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written law. Such a person's praise comes not from people, but from God.