MODERN LITERAL VERSION

2:1 Hence you are without defense, O man, who judges; for* in what you are judging another, you are condemning yourself; for* you who judge are practicing the same things.
2:2 Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth upon those who practice such things.
2:3 Now O man, who is judging those who practice such things and you are practicing the same yourself. Are you reasoning that you will escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5 But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2:6 who will ‘repay to each one according to his works.' {Ps 62:12}
2:7 Indeed eternal life to those who are seeking, according to endurance, in doing good for glory and honor and incorruption.
2:8 But to those who act out of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, he will repay with wrath and anger,
2:9 affliction and distress, upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek.
2:10 But glory and honor and peace to every man who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek;
2:11 for* there is no partiality with God.

2:12 For* as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. And as many as have sinned under the law will be judged through the law.
2:13 For* the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified.
2:14 For* whenever the Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law, are the law to themselves;
2:15 in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together with their hearts, and between one another, their reasonings are accusing or either defending them;
2:16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my good-news.

2:17 Behold, you who is named a Jew and rest upon the law and boast in God,
2:18 and know his will and approve the things that carry more-value, being instructed out of the law,
2:19 and have confidence that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
2:20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
2:21 Therefore you who are teaching another, are you not teaching yourself? You who are preaching a man should not steal, are you stealing?
2:22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? You who detest idols, are you a temple looter?
2:23 You who are boasting in the law, through your transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God?
2:24 ‘For* the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you*,' just-as it has been written. {Is. 52:5}
2:25 For* circumcision indeed profits, if you practice the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
2:26 Therefore, if the uncircumcision are keeping the ordinances of the law, will his uncircumcision not be counted toward circumcision?
2:27 And the uncircumcision who is accomplishing the law by nature, will judge you, who are a transgressor of the law through the writing and circumcision.
2:28 For* he is not a Jew who appears as one openly; neither is circumcision that which is openly in the flesh,
2:29 but a Jew is he who is so hidden, and the circumcision is that of the heart, in spirit, not in a writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.