Reformation Directory

1 He feareth the hypocrites with God’s judgement. 7 And comforteth the faithful. 12 To beat down all vain pretence of ignorance, holiness, and of alliance with God, he proveth all men to be sinners, 15 The Gentiles by their conscience, 17 The Jew by the Law written.

1.Therefore thou art inexcusable, ô man, whosoever thou art that ^^ajudgest: *for in that that thou judgest another, thou condemnest ^bthy self: for thou that judgest, doest the same things.

2.But we know that the judgment of God is according to ^ctruth, against them which commit such things.

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

4.Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulness, and *patience, and longsufferance, not knowing that the bountifulness of GOD leadeth thee to repentance?

5.But thou, after thine hardness and heart that can not repent, *heapest unto thyself wrath against the day of ^dwrath and of the declaration of the just judgment of God,

6.*Who will reward every man according to his ^eworks:

7.That is, to them which by continuance in well doing seek glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life:

8.But unto them that are contentious and disobey the truth, and obey unrighteousness, shalbe indignation and wrath.

9.Tribulation and anguish shalbe upon the soul of every man that doeth evil: of the Jew first, and also of the ^fGrecian.

10.But to every man that doeth good, shalbe glory, and honour, & peace, to the Jew first, and also to the Grecian.

11.For there is no *respect of ^gpersons with God.

12.For as many as have sinned without the Law, shall perish also ^hwithout the Law: and as many as have sinned in the Law, shalbe judged by the Law

13.(*For the hearers of the Law are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Law shalbe justified.

14.For when the Gentiles which have not the Law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, they having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves,

15.Which show the effect of the Law written in their ⁱhearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)

16.At the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.

17.¶ ^kBehold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the Law, and *gloriest in God,

18.And knowest his will, and ^allowest the things that are excellent, in that thou art instructed by the Law:

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

20.An instructor of them which lack discreation, a teacher of the unlearned, which hast the ^lform of knowledge, and of the truth in the Law.

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

22.Thou that saist, A man should not commit adultery, doest thou commit adultery? thou that abhorreth idols, committest thou sacrilege?

23.Thou that gloriest in the Law, through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God?

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

25.For circumcision verily is profitable, if thou do the Law: but if thou be a transgressor of the Law, thy ^mcircumcision is made uncircumcision.

26.Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

27.And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature (if it keep the Law) ^judge thee, which by the ⁿletter and circumcision art a transgressor of the Law?

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

29.But he is a Jew which is one within, and the *circumcision is of the heart, in the ^ospirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 2

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