¹Zato se ne moreš zagovarjati, o človek, kdorkoli si, ki sodiš; kajti v čemer sodiš drugega, obsojaš samega sebe; ker ti, ki sodiš, delaš isto.

¹Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

²Vemo pa, da sodba Božja zadeva po resnici te, ki delajo taka dela.

²We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.

³Ali pač misliš to, o človek, ki sodiš tiste, ki delajo taka dela, a isto delaš, da ti ubežiš sodbi Božji?

³Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

⁴Ali pa zaničuješ bogastvo njegove dobrote in prizanesljivosti in potrpljivosti, ne vedoč, da te dobrota Božja vodi na izpokorjenje?

⁴Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

⁵Temuč s svojo trdovratnostjo in z neizpokorljivim srcem sam sebi spravljaš jezo za dan jeze in razodetja pravične sodbe Boga,

⁵But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

⁶ki poplača vsakemu po njegovih delih:

⁶who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” Psalm 62:12; Proverbs 24:12

⁷tistim, ki s stanovitnostjo v dobrem delu iščejo slave in časti in nestrohljivosti, dá večno življenje,

⁷to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

⁸a sebičnim in resnici nepokornim, krivici pa pokornim, srd in jezo.

⁸but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

⁹Stiska in nadloga pride na dušo vsakega človeka, ki dela hudo, najprej na Juda, pa tudi na Grka;

⁹oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹⁰a slava in čast in mir vsakemu, ki dela dobro, najprej Judu, pa tudi Grku;

¹⁰But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who works good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

¹¹ker Bog ne gleda, kdo je kdo.

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹²Katerikoli so namreč brez postave grešili, tudi brez postave poginejo; in katerikoli so grešili, imajoč postavo, bodo po postavi sojeni.

¹²For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³Zakaj kateri postavo poslušajo, niso pravični pred Bogom, temuč kateri po postavi delajo, bodo šteti za pravične.

¹³For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

¹⁴Kadar namreč pogani, ki nimajo postave, delajo po naravi, kar zahteva postava, ti so, ne imajoč postave, sami sebi postava;

¹⁴(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

¹⁵saj sami kažejo, da je zahteva [Dobesedno: delo.] postave zapisana v njih srcih, ker jim to izpričujejo njih vest ter misli, ko se med seboj tožijo ali tudi zagovarjajo; -

¹⁵in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

¹⁶v dan, ko bo sodil Bog skrivnosti ljudi, po mojem evangeliju, po Jezusu Kristusu.

¹⁶in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷Če pa se ti imenuješ Jud in se naslanjaš na postavo in se hvališ z Bogom,

¹⁷Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

¹⁸in poznaš voljo njegovo in presojaš, kaj je boljše, ker si naučen iz postave,

¹⁸and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

¹⁹in zaupaš sebi, da si vodnik slepih, svetlost tistim, ki so v temi,

¹⁹and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

²⁰gojitelj nerazumnih, učitelj nedoraslih, ker imaš obrazec znanja in resnice v postavi:

²⁰a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²¹ki torej učiš drugega, sebe li ne učiš? ki oznanjaš, naj se ne krade, kradeš?

²¹You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

²²ki govoriš, naj se ne prešeštvuje, prešeštvuješ? ki so ti mrzki maliki, pleniš svetišče?

²²You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

²³ki se hvališ s postavo, s prestopanjem postave Bogu delaš nečast?

²³You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?

²⁴Kajti „zavoljo vas se ime Božje preklinja med pogani“, kakor je pisano.

²⁴For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” Isaiah 52:5; Ezekiel 36:22 just as it is written.

²⁵Obreza je resda koristna, če izpolnjuješ postavo; ako pa si prestopnik postave, je tvoja obreza postala neobreza.

²⁵For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

²⁶Če torej neobrezanec izpolnjuje pravične predpise postave, se li ne bo njegova neobreza štela za obrezo?

²⁶If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

²⁷In ne obsodi li neobrezanec po naravi, ki izpolnjuje postavo, tebe, ki si prestopnik postave, čeprav imaš črko in obrezo?

²⁷Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

²⁸Ni namreč Jud, ki je po zunanjem Jud, tudi ni obreza, ki je zunaj na mesu,marveč ta je Jud, ki je znotraj Jud, in prava obreza je obreza srca v duhu, ne v črki; čigar hvala ni od ljudi, ampak od Boga.

²⁸For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

²⁹marveč ta je Jud, ki je znotraj Jud, in prava obreza je obreza srca v duhu, ne v črki; čigar hvala ni od ljudi, ampak od Boga.

²⁹but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.