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  • 1. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoeuer thou art that condemnest: for in that that thou condemnest another, thou condemnest thy selfe: for thou that condemnest, doest the same things.
  • 2. But we know that the iudgement of God is according to trueth, against them which comit such things.
  • 3. And thinkest thou this, O thou man, that condemnest them which doe such thinges, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?
  • 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?
  • 5. But thou, after thine hardnesse, and heart that canot repent, heapest vp as a treasure vnto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath, and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God,
  • 6. Who wil reward euery man according to his woorkes:
  • 7. That is, to them which through patience in well doing, seeke glorie, and honour, and immortalitie, euerlasting life:
  • 8. But vnto them that are contentious and disobey the trueth, and obey vnrighteousnesse, shalbe indignation and wrath.
  • 9. Tribulation and anguish shalbe vpon the soule of euery man that doeth euill: of the Iewe first, and also of the Grecian.
  • 10. But to euery man that doeth good, shalbe glory, and honour, and peace: to the Iew first, and also to the Grecian.
  • 11. For there is no respect of persons with God.
  • 12. For as many as haue sinned without the Lawe, shall perish also without the Lawe: and as many as haue sinned in the Lawe, shall be iudged by the Lawe,
  • 13. (For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Lawe shalbe iustified.
  • 14. For when the Gentiles which haue not the Lawe, doe by nature, the things conteined in the Lawe, they hauing not the Lawe, are a Lawe vnto themselues,
  • 15. Which shew the effect of the Lawe written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witnes, and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing,)
  • 16. At the day when God shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
  • 17. Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,
  • 18. And knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Lawe:
  • 19. And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,
  • 20. An instructer of them which lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast the forme of knowledge, & of the truth in ye Law.
  • 21. Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?
  • 22. Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?
  • 23. Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?
  • 24. For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
  • 25. For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.
  • 26. Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
  • 27. And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?
  • 28. For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
  • 29. But he is a Iewe which is one wtin, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.