Romans 2 Who Can Judge?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Romans in the Bible teaches. This message covers Romans 2, judging.

Bible References

Romans 2:1-29 ( KJV ) ¹Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.  ²But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.  ³And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?  ⁴Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?  ⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;  ⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:  ⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:  ⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,  ⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;  ¹⁰But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:  ¹¹For there is no respect of persons with God.  ¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as 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.  ¹⁴For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:  ¹⁵Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)  ¹⁶In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. ¹⁷Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,  ¹⁸And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;  ¹⁹And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,  ²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.  ²¹Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?  ²²Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?  ²³Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?  ²⁴For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.  ²⁵For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.  ²⁶Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?  ²⁷And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?  ²⁸For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:  ²⁹But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Matthew 5:44-45 ( KJV ) ⁴⁴But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;  ⁴⁵That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Romans 10:6-10 ( KJV ) ⁶But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above🙂  ⁷Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)  ⁸But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;  ⁹That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  ¹⁰For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ( KJV ) ¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.  ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Romans 10:13-19 ( KJV ) ¹³For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  ¹⁴How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?  ¹⁵And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!  ¹⁶But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?  ¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  ¹⁸But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.  ¹⁹But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

Ephesians 4:28 ( KJV ) ²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.