Romans 2, side by side

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

¹Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

²We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

²But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

³Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

³And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

⁷to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

⁸but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

⁹oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

¹⁰But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹¹For there is no respect of persons with God.

¹²For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹³(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

¹⁴For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

¹⁵Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

¹⁶in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁶In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

¹⁷Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁸And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

¹⁹And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

²¹You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

²¹Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

²²You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²²Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

²³Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁵For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

²⁶Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

²⁷And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

²⁸For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

²⁹but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

²⁹But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.