91 lines
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91 lines
3.7 KiB
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## God's Righteous Judgment
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Therefore you are without excuse, O man, everyone who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
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###### 2
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And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things.
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###### 3
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But do you presume this, O man--who passes judgment on those who practice such things and does the same--that you will escape the judgment of God?
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Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
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But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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who will repay to each according to his works:
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to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
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but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
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_There will be_ affliction and turmoil for every soul of man who works out evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,
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but glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
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For there is no partiality with God.
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###### 12
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For all who have sinned without 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 _it is_ not the hearers of the Law _who_ are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.
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For when Gentiles who do not have the Law naturally do the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
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in that they demonstrate the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,
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on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
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## The Jew Is Judged by the Law
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But if you bear the name "Jew" and rely upon the Law and boast in God,
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and know _His_ will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,
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and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,
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###### 21
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you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?
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###### 22
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You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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You who boast in the Law, through your transgression of the Law, do you dishonor God?
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For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
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For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
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So if the uncircumcised man observes the righteous requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
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And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the Law, will he not judge you who, through the letter _of the Law_ and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law?
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For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
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But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.
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