ROMANS EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS 02: CHAPTER 02

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EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS 02: CHAPTER 02

You may read the whole chapter 2 with your Bible or at this link (where I have the Bible text).

https://www.bible.com/bible/111/ROM.2.NIV

God’s Righteous Judgment

1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 

     A: We can't excuse ourselves from judgment because we do the same wrong things.

2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 

     A: God judges based on truth.

3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 

     A: We can't escape God's judgment.

4 Or do you show contempt(scorn) for the riches of His kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

     A: We must not scorn God's goodness but repent.

5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 

     A: We are storing up wrath by being stubborn for the day of judgment.

6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”  (Ps 62:12, Prov 24:12)

7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 

     A: God repay good to good people.

8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 

     A: God repay wrath and anger to those who selfish, reject the truth, and follow evil.

9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 

     A: Bad people, Jew and Gentile, will be troubled and distressed.

10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 

     A: God will give glory, honor, and peace to the good people, for the Jew and Gentile.

11 For God does not show favoritism. (Yes.)

12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 

     A: Anyone who apart from the law will be perish and judged by the law.

13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 

     A: Only those who obey the law are righteous, but not just hearer.

14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 

     A: Gentile who does not have the law also has the law in them.

15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 

     A: Gentiles have their own law such as consciences and normal thoughts.

16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

     A: People's secrets will be judged accordingly at the day of God's judgment. (1Co 4:5)

The Jews and the Law

17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 

18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 

19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 

20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 

     A: These are what Jews claim to be because they have the law of God.

21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 

22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor (refuse) idols, do you rob temples? 

23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 

     A: Paul questions to Jews if they do as they teach and claim to be. And the answer is NO.

24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (Isa 52:5, Eze 36:20, 22)

     A: The result of what they do; they disgrace God's name.

25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised. 

     A: Circumcision is required by the law but obedience is more important. (Jews keep the circumcision as a sign of being proudly selected but not obeying the true teaching of the law.)

26 So then, if those who are not circumcised (Gentiles) keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? 

27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.

     A: Obeying the law is more important than circumcision.

28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 

29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.

     A: Outward showing-up does not prove the true identity but inward attitude and the Spirit prove. The true praise is from God but not from other people.

* The Spirit of the Law

All laws have spirits in; true meaning of the law.

The most important spirit of all laws is LOVE; Loving God and Loving Self/Neighbors.Keeping superficial law while not knowing/doing the spirit of the law is foolish or not good.

(Mark 7:9-13, 9And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! 10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’  11But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— 12then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. 13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”)

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