Paul turns to those who judge others while doing the same things. God judges everyone impartially, Jew and Gentile alike, and what counts is not outward circumcision but a changed heart.
1 Therefore thou art inexcusable , O man , whosoever thou art that judgest : for wherein thou judgest another , thou condemnest thyself ; for thou that judgest doest the same things .
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things .
3 And thinkest thou this , O 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 goodness and forbearance and longsuffering ; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance ?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God ;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds :
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality , eternal life :
8 But unto them 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 doeth evil , of the Jew first , and also of the Gentile ;
10 But glory , honour , and peace , to every man that worketh 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 shall also perish without law : and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law ;
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God , but the doers of the law shall be justified .
14 For when the Gentiles , which have not the law , do by nature the things contained in the law , these , having not the law , are a law unto themselves :
15 Which shew 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 the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel .
17 Behold , thou art called a Jew , and restest in the law , and makest thy boast of God ,
18 And knowest his will , and approvest the things that are more excellent , being instructed out of the law ;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind , a light of them which are in darkness ,
20 An instructor of the foolish , a teacher of babes , which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law .
21 Thou therefore which teachest another , teachest thou not thyself ? thou that preachest a man should not steal , dost thou steal ?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery , dost thou commit adultery ? thou that abhorrest idols , dost thou commit sacrilege ?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of 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 profiteth , if thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of the law , thy circumcision is made uncircumcision .
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law , shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision ?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature , if it fulfil the law , judge thee , who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law ?
28 For he is not a Jew , which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision , which is outward in the flesh :
29 But he is a Jew , which 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 .