CHAP. 2: 1—16.

^Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judg- est ; for.wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things, ^gyt -y^e are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. ^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 ] *0r despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffer- ing ; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance ? ^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 ; ^who will render to every man according to his deeds : ^to them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : ^but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, ^tribu- lation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; ^°but glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile : *^for there is no respect of persons with God. ^^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; ^^(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. '^^For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things con-