Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are,
when you judge others;
for in passing judgement on another you condemn yourself,
because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
You say,
"We know that God’s judgement on those
who do such things is in accordance with truth."
Do you imagine, whoever you are,
that when you judge those who do such things
and yet do them yourself,
you will escape the judgement of God?
Or do you despise
the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience?
Do you not realize
that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
But by your hard and impenitent heart
you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath,
when God’s righteous judgement will be revealed.
For he will repay according to each one’s deeds:
to those who by patiently doing good
seek for glory and honour and immortality,
he will give eternal life;
while for those who are self-seeking
and who obey not the truth but wickedness,
there will be wrath and fury.
There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil,
the Jew first and also the Greek,
but glory and honour and peace for everyone who does good,
the Jew first and also the Greek.
For God shows no partiality.
God has no favourites.
Romans 2:1-11
