2:12. 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. 2:13. For not the hearers of the law are just before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified. 2:14. 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. 2:15. 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, 2:16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. 2:17. But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, 2:18. And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law: 2:19. Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 2:20. An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law. 2:21. Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest. 2:22. Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege: 2:23. Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God. 2:24. (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.) 2:25. Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 2:26. If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 2:27. 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? 2:28. For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh. 2:29. 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 Chapter 3 The advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners and none can be justified by the works of the law, but only by the grace of Christ. 3:1. What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? 3:2. Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them. 3:3. For what if some of them have not believed? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! 3:4. But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.