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.

¹Huaijiakin, mihing aw, mi selhat kuapeuh himahlechin, pau lam himhim na neikei hi; midang na selna mahah nangmah leh nangmah siamlouh kitang sak na hi; nang selhatin leng huchibang thilte tuh na hih sam ngala.

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

²Huchibang thil hih nakte tungah Pathian vaihawmna tuh diktak in a tung chih i thei ngala.

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?

³Mihing aw, huchibang thil hih nakte gensia, nang leng huchibang na hih sam ngal naka Pathian vaihawmna pelh na kigingta ahia?

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

⁴A hihkeileh, Pathian hoihna tuh kisiknaa nang honpi dinga om ahi chih theilouin, a hoihna, a thuaktheihna leh, a dohtheihna hauhnate na ngaineu ahi a?

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;

⁵Na chihmoh leh na lungtang khauh jiakin, hehna leh Pathian vaihawmna diktat hongkilatna ni chiang adingin, na tungah hehna na kikhol khawm tawm ahi.

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

⁶Pathianin mi chih a thil hih bang jel un a hawmsak dinga;

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

⁷thil hoih hih teiteia, thupina leh pahtawina leh manthat theihlouhna zong mite kiangah, khantawn hinna a pe ding;

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

⁸a hihhangin, genhaka, thutak jui lou a, gitlouhna jui zote tungah, hehna leh thangpaihna te, haksatna leh lungkhamna thupitakte a om dia;

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

⁹mihing thil hihkhial tengteng kha tungah a om ding, Juda mi kha tungah a masa dia, huan, Grik mi kha tungah a om nawn ding.

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

¹⁰Ahihhangin, thil hoih hih peuhmah kiangah thupinate, pahtawina te, khamuanna te piak ahi ding, Juda mi kiangah piak ahi masa dia, huan, Grik mi kiangah ahi nawn ding.

¹¹For there is no partiality with God.

¹¹Pathianin mi deihsk tuam a nein gal keia.

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.

¹²Kuapeuh dan neiloua thil hihkhial tuh, dan louin a mangthang ding hi; huan, kuapeuhmah dan neia thil hihkhial tuh, dana vaihawmin a om ding.

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

¹³Dan zami phette tuh Pathian mitmuhin mi dik ahi kei ua; dan juite tuh mi dik a hizo ding uh.

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,

¹⁴Dan neilou Jentelten amau pianpiha dan thilte a hih un, huaiten dan neikeimahleh uh, amau leh amau danin a kinei tawm ngal ua.

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)

¹⁵A lungtang uah dan thilhih gelh ahi chih a ensak uh, huai tuh a sia leh pha theihna un a theihpih hi; a lungsimte uh tuh a kisela, a thupukna-un siamlouh a tan hiam siam a tan hiam ahi ding,

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

¹⁶ka Tanchin Hoih gen banga, mihingte thugukte Pathianin, Jesu Krisa, a ngaihtuah ni chiangin.

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

¹⁷Himahleh, nang Juda kichi na hi a, dan na muanga, Pathian na suanga,

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

¹⁸a deihlam na theia, thil hoihjaw te hoih na saa, dana hilhin na om a,

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

¹⁹nangmah mah mittawte pipa, mial laka omte vakna hiin na kigingta a;

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

²⁰dan ah pilna leh thutak omdan na theih jiakin, mi pilloute hilhpilpa, naungekte hilhpain nakigingta hi;

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

²¹huchibang na hih ngal leh, nang, midangte hilhpa, nangmah na kihilh ka hia? Nang, mi guta lou dia hilhpa, nang nag u nak maw?

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

²²Nang, angkawm lou dia hilhpa, nang ang na kawm nak maw? Nang, milim hopa, nang milim biakina thilte nag u nak maw?

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

²³Nang, dan suangpa, nang dana na tatlek jiakin Pathian na hihminse jel ahi maw?

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

²⁴A gelh bang ngei un Pathian min tuh noumau jiakin Jentelte lakah hihsiatin a om ta hi.

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.

²⁵Dan juipa na hih leh zeksum a phatuam ngial hi; dana talekpa na hih lebel, na zeksum tuh sum louh bang phet a honghita hi.

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

²⁶Huaijiakin, zeksum lou miin dan thu sehte a zuih leh, a zeksum louh tuh sum banga sim ahi kei dia hia?

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?

²⁷Huan, amau saa zeksum louhin dan a zuih kim uleh, nang, danthu gelh leh zeksum nei ngala, dana talekpa a honmohpaih kei ding ua hia?

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

²⁸Alang lela Juda mi hi jaw Juda mi tak ahi kei hi; a langa sa lela zeksum jaw zeksum tak leng ahi sam kei hi.Ahihhangin, a lang lel hi loua, Juda mi hi, Juda mi tak ahi; huan, zeksum tak tuh, lungsim lama sum ahi, lai thu phetah hi louin, kha ah ahi; huai miin tuh mihing phat a loh keia, Pathian phat a loh jaw ahi.

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.

²⁹Ahihhangin, a lang lel hi loua, Juda mi hi, Juda mi tak ahi; huan, zeksum tak tuh, lungsim lama sum ahi, lai thu phetah hi louin, kha ah ahi; huai miin tuh mihing phat a loh keia, Pathian phat a loh jaw ahi.