>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/rom/2?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#09102::c09102) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/romans/2.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Romans/2.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/rom/2/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Paul, writing to the Christians in Rome, addresses both Jewish and Gentile believers, stressing that true righteousness comes from the heart and not merely from following the law. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>God wants us to be kind and good, not just pretend. He cares more about what's in our hearts than just following rules. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Romans 2 teaches that God's judgment is fair and based on truth. Paul warns against hypocrisy, emphasizing that merely knowing the law is not enough; what matters is living by it. True righteousness is about inward transformation, not just outward signs or rituals, and God judges everyone equally, whether Jew or Gentile. > >#Gospel/Judgment #Gospel/Hypocrisy #Gospel/TrueRighteousness ###### 1 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 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. ###### 3 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 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 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 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: ###### 7 7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: ###### 8 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, ###### 9 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; ###### 10 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: ###### 11 11 For there is no respect of persons with God. ###### 12 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 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. ###### 14 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 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 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. ###### 17 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, ###### 18 18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; ###### 19 19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, ###### 20 20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. ###### 21 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ###### 22 22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ###### 23 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? ###### 24 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. ###### 25 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 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? ###### 27 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 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: ###### 29 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.