[Sidenote: Ver. 1.] =Wherefore you are without excuse, O man, every man who judges; when you judge the other party you pass judgment on yourself; for you practise the same things, you who judge.= [Sidenote: Ver. 2.] =For[17] we know=--this is a granted point between us--=that God's judgment is truth-wise,= is a reality, in awful earnest, =upon those who practise such things.= [Sidenote: Ver. 3.] =Now is this your calculation, O man, you who judge those who practise such things, and do them yourself, that you will escape God's judgment?= Do you surmise that some by-way of privilege and indulgence will be kept open for you? [Sidenote: Ver. 4.] =Or do you despise the wealth of His kindness, and of His forbearance and longsuffering= --despise it, by mistaking it for mere indulgence, or indifference-- =knowing not that God's kind ways (τὸ χρηστὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ) lead you to repentance?= [Sidenote: Ver. 5.] =No, true to (κατὰ) your own hardness, your own unrepentant heart, you are hoarding for yourself a wrath= which will be felt =in the day of wrath,= the day =of disclosure of the righteous judgment of God,= [Sidenote: Ver. 6.] =who will requite each individual according to his works.= What will be that requital, and its law? [Sidenote: Ver. 7.] =To those who, on the line of (κατὰ) perseverance in good work, seek,= as their point of gravitation, =glory, and honour, and immortality,= He will requite =life eternal.= [Sidenote: Ver. 8.] =But for those who side with (τοῖς ἐκ) strife,= who take part with man, with self, with sin, against the claims and grace of God, and, =while they disobey the truth= of conscience, =obey unrighteousness,= yielding the will to wrong, =there shall be wrath and fierce anger,= [Sidenote: Ver. 9.] =trouble and bewilderment, inflicted on every soul of man,= man =working out what is evil, alike Jew=--Jew =first--and Greek.= [Sidenote: Ver. 10.] =But glory, and honour, and peace= shall be =for every one who works what is good, alike for Jew=--Jew =first--and Greek.= [Sidenote: Ver. 11.] =For there is no favouritism in God's court.=