### Douay Rheims Bible

Romans 1

## The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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| # Chapter 2
#### 1 | Wherefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest.
#### 2 | For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things.
#### 3 | And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
#### 4 | Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
#### 5 | But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.
#### 6 | Who will render to every man according to his works.
#### 7 | To them indeed, who according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:
#### 8 | But to them that are contentious, and who obey not the truth, but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation.
#### 9 | Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.
#### 10 | But glory, and honour, and peace to every one that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
#### 11 | For there is no respect of persons with God.
#### 12 | For whosoever have sinned without the law, shall perish without the law; and whosoever have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.
#### 13 | For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
#### 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 fulfil 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:
#### 29 | But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 3

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