1 ¶ Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge: for when you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.

2 Now we know that God’s judgment is according to truth against those who do such things.

3 So when you judge those who do such things, and do the same, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

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

5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are stockpiling wrath for yourself in the day when the wrath and righteous judgment of God is revealed;

6 For he will render to every man according to his deeds:

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

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

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

10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

11 For there is no respect of persons with God.

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

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

14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, they, not having the law, are a law to themselves:

15 Who show 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;)

16 In respect to the day when, as my gospel proclaims, God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.

17 ¶ Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,

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

19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in darkness,

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

21 You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? you who preach a man should not steal, do you steal?

22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law are you dishonoring God?

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

25 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

26 Therefore if the uncircumcised keeps the righteousness of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

27 And won’t uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfils the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?

28 For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

29 But he is a Jew, who 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.

[Note: Verses 28 and 29 set forth the doctrine of Spiritual Israel.]