Romans 2:14-28

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁴ For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law are a law to themselves:

¹⁵ Who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them, and their thoughts between themselves accusing, or also defending one another,

¹⁶ In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

¹⁷ But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸ And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,

¹⁹ Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

²¹ Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:

²² Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

²³ Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

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

²⁵ Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

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