God’s righteous judgment
1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realising that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
5But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’2:6 Psalm 62:12; Prov. 24:12 7To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honour and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honour and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11For God does not show favouritism.
12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
The Jews and the law
17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 18if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth – 21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23You who boast in the law, do you dishonour God by breaking the law? 24As it is written: ‘God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22
25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. 26So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? 27The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the2:27 Or who, by means of a written code and circumcision, are a law-breaker.
28A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
上帝公義的審判
1因此，你這論斷人的啊，不管你是誰，都難逃罪責。你在什麼事上論斷別人，就在什麼事上定了自己的罪，因為你論斷別人的事，自己也在做。 2我們都知道，上帝必按真理審判做這些事的人。 3你這人啊，你論斷別人，自己卻做同樣的事，你以為自己能逃脫上帝的審判嗎？ 4還是你藐視祂深厚的慈愛、寬容和忍耐，不知道祂的慈愛是要引導你悔改嗎？ 5你這樣硬著心不肯悔改等於是為自己積蓄烈怒，上帝的烈怒在祂施行公義審判的那天必臨到你。 6上帝必照各人的行為施行賞罰。 7凡是恆心行善、尋求榮耀、尊貴和永恆福分的人，祂要把永生賜給他們； 8至於那些自私自利、違背真理、行為不義的人，祂的烈怒和怒氣要降在他們身上。 9一切作惡之人必受患難和痛苦，先是猶太人，然後是希臘人。 10祂要將榮耀、尊貴和平安賜給一切行善的人，先是猶太人，然後是希臘人。 11因為上帝不偏待人。
12沒有上帝律法的人若犯罪，雖然不按律法受審判，仍要滅亡；有上帝律法的人若犯罪，必按律法受審判。 13因為上帝眼中的義人不是聽到律法的人，而是遵行律法的人。 14沒有律法的外族人若順著天性做合乎律法的事，他們雖然沒有律法，自己就是自己的律法。 15這表明律法的要求刻在他們心裡，他們的良心也可以證明，因為他們的思想有時指控他們，有時為他們辯護。 16按照我所傳的福音，到了審判之日，上帝要藉著耶穌基督審判人一切隱祕的事。
猶太人與律法
17你自稱是猶太人，倚仗上帝所賜的律法，自誇與上帝有特別的關係； 18你受過律法的教導，知道上帝的旨意，能明辨是非； 19你自信可以做盲人的嚮導、黑暗中的人的光、 20愚昧人的師傅、小孩子的老師，因為你從律法中得到了知識和真理。 21那麼，你這教導別人的，為什麼不教導自己呢？你教導人不可偷盜，自己卻偷盜嗎？ 22你告訴他人不可通姦，自己卻通姦嗎？你憎惡偶像，自己卻去偷廟裡的東西嗎？ 23你以律法自誇，自己卻違犯律法羞辱上帝嗎？ 24正如聖經上說：「因你們的緣故，上帝的名在外族人中受到褻瀆！」
25如果你遵行律法，割禮才有價值；如果你違犯律法，受了割禮也如同未受割禮。 26如果未受割禮的人遵行律法的教導，他豈不算是受了割禮嗎？ 27身體未受割禮卻遵行律法的人，必審判你這有律法條文、受了割禮卻違犯律法的人。 28因為徒具外表的猶太人不是真正的猶太人，身體上的割禮也不是真正的割禮。 29唯有從心裡做猶太人的才是真猶太人，真割禮是藉著聖靈在心裡受的割禮，不在於律法條文。這樣的人得到的稱讚不是從人來的，而是從上帝來的。
