002:002 and we know that God's judgement against those who commit such sins is in accordance with the truth. 002:003 And you who pronounce judgement upon those who do such things although your own conduct is the same as theirs-- do you imagine that you yourself will escape unpunished when God judges? 002:004 Or is it that you think slightingly of His infinite goodness, forbearance and patience, unaware that the goodness of God is gently drawing you to repentance? 002:005 The fact is that in the stubbornness of your impenitent heart you are treasuring up against yourself anger on the day of Anger--the day when the righteousness of God's judgements will stand revealed. 002:006 To each man He will make an award corresponding to his actions; 002:007 to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages; 002:008 while on the other hand upon the self-willed who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness will fall anger and fury, affliction and awful distress, 002:009 coming upon the soul of every man and woman who deliberately does wrong--upon the Jew first, and then upon the Gentile; 002:010 whereas glory, honour and peace will be given to every one who does what is good and right--to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. 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,