Romanos 2

1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"✝2:6 Psalms 62:12; Proverbs 24:12 7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, 9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. 12 For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified 14 (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them) 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

17 Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God, 18 know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. 21 You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? 22 You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law? 24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,"✝2:24 Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22 just as it is written. 25 For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? 27 Won’t those who are physically uncircumcised, but fulfill the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Te Whakawātanga a te Atua

1 Nā, kāhore he kupu whakahoki māu, e koe, e te tangata e whakahē ana; i a koe hoki e whakahē nā i tērā, e whakatau ana koe i te hē ki a koe anō; kei te mahi hoki koe, te kaiwhakahē, i aua mea nā anō. 2 Nā, e mātau ana tātou kei runga i te pono te whakahēnga a te Atua mō ngā kaimahi i aua mea. 3 Ko tōu whakaaro rānei tēnei, e te tangata e whakahē ana ki ngā kaimahi i aua mea, e mahi nā anō koe i aua mea, ko koe e ora i tā te Atua whakahē? 4 E whakahāwea ana rānei koe ki ngā rawa o tōna ngāwari, o tāna tikanga māhaki, o tōna manawanui, e ranea tonu nei; tē mahara ko te ngāwari o te Atua hei ārahi i a koe ki te rīpenetā?

5 Heoi, pakeke tonu koe, kāhore e rīpenetā tōu ngākau, e pūranga ana koe i te riri mōu, mō te rā o te riri, o te whakakitenga mai anō i tā te Atua whakawākanga tika; 6 "Māna e hōmai ki tētahi, ki tētahi, kia rite ki ā rātou mahi." 7 Ki te hunga e whai ana ki te korōria, ki te hōnore, ki te piraukore, me te mau anō ki te mahi pai, he ora tonu. 8 Ki te hunga ia e totohe ana, e turi ana ki te pono, e whakarongo ana hoki ki te hē, he riri, he āritarita. 9 He pāwera, he raru, mō ngā wairua tangata katoa e mahi ana i te kino, mō te Hūrai ki mua, mō te Kariki anō hoki, 10 he korōria ia, he hōnore, he rangimārie, mō ngā tāngata katoa e mahi ana i te pai, mō te Hūrai ki mua, mō te Kariki anō hoki. 11 Kāhore hoki a te Atua whakapai kanohi.

12 Ko te hunga hoki i hara turekore, ka ngaro turekore anō hoki; me te hunga i hara i runga i te ture, kei te ture anō he whakahē mō rātou. 13 He teka hoki ko ngā kaiwhakarongo o te ture e tika ki tā te Atua; engari, ko ngā kaimahi o te ture e whakatikaia. 14 I te mea hoki e mahia māoritia ana ngā mea o te ture e ngā tauiwi, kāhore nei ō rātou ture, ko ēnei, kāhore nei ō rātou ture, hei ture ki a rātou anō. 15 I te mea ka whakakite rātou i te mahi a te ture, he mea tuhituhi ki ō rātou ngākau, me te whakaae tahi anō ō rātou hinengaro, ko ō rātou whakaaro kei te whakahēhē, kei te whakatikatika rānei i a rātou; 16 i te rā e whakawā ai te Atua i ngā mea ngaro a ngā tāngata, he mea whakarite tonu ki tāku rongopai, he meatanga nā Īhu Karaiti.

Ngā Hūrai me te Ture

17 Otirā, mehemea e tapaina ana koe he Hūrai, ā, e whakawhirinaki ana koe ki te ture, e whakamanamana ana ki te Atua, 18 ā, e mōhio ana ki tāna e pai ai, ā, e kitea ana e koe ngā mea e tino pai ana, he mea whakaako hoki koe nā te ture, 19 ā, e ū ana tōu whakaaro, ko koe hei kaiārahi mō ngā matapō, hei mārama mō te hunga i roto i te pōuri, 20 hei kaiwhakatikatika mō ngā kūware, hei kaiwhakaako mō ngā kōhungahunga; kei a koe hoki te āhua o te mātauranga, o te pono i runga i te ture. 21 He kaiwhakaako koe i tērā atu, e kore ianei koe e whakaako i a koe anō? E kauwhau nā koe kia kaua e tāhae, e tāhae ana rānei koe? 22 Ā, koe e mea nā, Kaua e pūremu, e pūremu ana rānei koe? Ā, koe e whakarihariha nā ki ngā whakapakoko, e tāhae ana rānei koe i ngā mea o ngā temepara? 23 Ā, koe e whakamanamana nā ki te ture, kei te whakaiti rānei koe i te Atua i te mea ka takahi koe i te ture? 24 "Nā koutou hoki i kohukohua ai te ingoa o te Atua i roto i ngā tauiwi, i pērātia ai me te mea kua oti te tuhituhi."

25 E whai tikanga ana hoki te kotinga, ki te mahia e koe te ture; tēnā ki te takahi koe i te ture, ka riro tōu kotinga hei kotingakore. 26 Nā, ki te mau i te kotingakore ngā tikanga o te ture, e kore ianei tōna kotingakore e kīia hei kotinga? 27 Ā, ki te rite te ture i te mea kīhai kotia māoritia, e kore ianei ia e whakahē i a koe, e whiwhi nā ki te kupu tuhituhi me te kotinga, i a koe e takahi nā i te ture? 28 Ehara hoki i te Hūrai te mea ko waho noa iho tōna āhua Hūrai; ehara anō i te kotinga te mea nō waho, nō te kikokiko. 29 Engari, he Hūrai ia, nō roto tōna āhua Hūrai; ā, ko te kotinga, nō te ngākau, he mea wairua, he teka nā te kupu tuhituhi; ehara hoki i te mea e whakamoemititia ana e te tangata, engari e te Atua.