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Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.
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For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.
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And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
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Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience and longsuffering? Knowest thou not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
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But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:
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Who will render to every man according to his works.
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To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
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But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
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Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
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But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
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For there is no respect of persons with God.
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For whosoever have sinned without the law shall perish without the law: and whosoever have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.
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For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these, having not the law, are a law to themselves.
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Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them: and their thoughts between themselves accusing or also defending one another,
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In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
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But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,
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And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:
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Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,
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An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.
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Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.
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Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:
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Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.
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(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)
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Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
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If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
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And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?
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For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.
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But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.
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