{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "romans", "chapter": 2 }, "data": { "n": 2, "bookSlug": "romans", "bookCode": "ROM", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "ROM-2:1", "verseRef": "ROM.2.1", "text": "Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "ROM-2:2", "verseRef": "ROM.2.2", "text": "And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "ROM-2:3", "verseRef": "ROM.2.3", "text": "And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "ROM-2:4", "verseRef": "ROM.2.4", "text": "Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "ROM-2:5", "verseRef": "ROM.2.5", "text": "but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ROM-2:6", "verseRef": "ROM.2.6", "text": "who will render to every man according to his works:" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ROM-2:7", "verseRef": "ROM.2.7", "text": "to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ROM-2:8", "verseRef": "ROM.2.8", "text": "but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation," },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ROM-2:9", "verseRef": "ROM.2.9", "text": "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ROM-2:10", "verseRef": "ROM.2.10", "text": "but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ROM-2:11", "verseRef": "ROM.2.11", "text": "for there is no respect of persons with God." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ROM-2:12", "verseRef": "ROM.2.12", "text": "For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ROM-2:13", "verseRef": "ROM.2.13", "text": "for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ROM-2:14", "verseRef": "ROM.2.14", "text": "(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ROM-2:15", "verseRef": "ROM.2.15", "text": "in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing [them]);" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ROM-2:16", "verseRef": "ROM.2.16", "text": "in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ROM-2:17", "verseRef": "ROM.2.17", "text": "But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God," },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ROM-2:18", "verseRef": "ROM.2.18", "text": "and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law," },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ROM-2:19", "verseRef": "ROM.2.19", "text": "and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness," },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ROM-2:20", "verseRef": "ROM.2.20", "text": "a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ROM-2:21", "verseRef": "ROM.2.21", "text": "thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ROM-2:22", "verseRef": "ROM.2.22", "text": "thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples?" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ROM-2:23", "verseRef": "ROM.2.23", "text": "thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law dishonorest thou God?" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ROM-2:24", "verseRef": "ROM.2.24", "text": "For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ROM-2:25", "verseRef": "ROM.2.25", "text": "For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "ROM-2:26", "verseRef": "ROM.2.26", "text": "If therefore the uncircumcision keep the ordinances of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "ROM-2:27", "verseRef": "ROM.2.27", "text": "and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "ROM-2:28", "verseRef": "ROM.2.28", "text": "For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "ROM-2:29", "verseRef": "ROM.2.29", "text": "but 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 of men, but of God." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/romans/chapters/2", "book": "/v1/library/books/romans/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/romans/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }