002:011 For God pays no attention to this world's distinctions.
002:012 For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish
apart from the Law, and all who have sinned whilst living
under the Law, will be judged by the Law.
002:013 It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous
in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law
who will be pronounced righteous.
002:014 For when Gentiles who have no Law obey by natural instinct
the commands of the Law, they, without having a Law,
are a Law to themselves;
002:015 since they exhibit proof that a knowledge of the conduct
which the Law requires is engraven on their hearts,
while their consciences also bear witness to the Law,
and their thoughts, as if in mutual discussion, accuse them
or perhaps maintain their innocence--
002:016 on the day when God will judge the secrets of men's lives by
Jesus Christ, as declared in the Good News as I have taught it.
002:017 And since you claim the name of Jew, and find rest and satisfaction
in the Law, and make your boast in God,
002:018 and know the supreme will, and can test things that differ--
being a man who receives instruction from the Law--
002:019 and have persuaded yourself that, as for you, you are a guide
to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
002:020 a schoolmaster for the dull and ignorant, a teacher of the young,
because in the Law you possess an outline of real knowledge
and an outline of the truth:
002:021 you then who teach your fellow man, do you refuse to teach yourself?
You who cry out against stealing, are you yourself a thief?
002:022 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery?
You who loathe idols, do you plunder their temples?