Romans 2:1
Therefore you have nothing to say in your own defence, whoever you are who set yourself up as a judge. In judging others you condemn yourself, for you who set yourself up as a judge do the very same things.
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In Context
2And we know that God’s judgment falls unerringly on those who do them.
Cross References
Matthew 7:1‘Do not judge and you will not be judged.
Luke 6:37Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
John 8:7However, as they continued asking him, he raised himself, and said, ‘Let the person among you who has never done wrong throw the first stone at her.’
Romans 2:3You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them – do you suppose that you of all people will escape God’s judgment?
Romans 2:26If, then, an uncircumcised man pays regard to the requirements of the Law, won’t he, although not circumcised, be regarded by God as if he were?
Matthew Henry on Romans 2:1
The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch. iii. 9 , "We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin." This we have proved upon the Gentiles ( ch. i. ), now in this chapter he proves it upon the Jews, as appears by ver. 17 , "thou art called a Jew." I. He proves in general that Jews and Gentiles stand upon the same level before the justice of God, to ver. 11 . II. He shows more particularly what sins the Jews were guilty of, notwithstanding their… Read the whole commentary →