रोमियो 2
1 सो हे दोष लगाने वाले, तू कोई क्यों न हो; तू निरुत्तर है! क्योंकि जिस बात में तू दूसरे पर दोष लगाता है, उसी बात में अपने आप को भी दोषी ठहराता है, इसलिये कि तू जो दोष लगाता है, आप ही वही काम करता है।
2 और हम जानते हैं, कि ऐसे ऐसे काम करने वालों पर परमेश्वर की ओर से ठीक ठीक दण्ड की आज्ञा होती है।
3 और हे मनुष्य, तू जो ऐसे ऐसे काम करने वालों पर दोष लगाता है, और आप वे ही काम करता है; क्या यह समझता है, कि तू परमेश्वर की दण्ड की आज्ञा से बच जाएगा?
4 क्या तू उस की कृपा, और सहनशीलता, और धीरज रूपी धन को तुच्छ जानता है और कया यह नहीं समझता, कि परमेश्वर की कृपा तुझे मन फिराव को सिखाती है?
5 पर अपनी कठोरता और हठीले मन के अनुसार उसके क्रोध के दिन के लिये, जिस में परमेश्वर का सच्चा न्याय प्रगट होगा, अपने निमित क्रोध कमा रहा है।
6 वह हर एक को उसके कामों के अनुसार बदला देगा।
7 जो सुकर्म में स्थिर रहकर महिमा, और आदर, और अमरता की खोज में है, उन्हें वह अनन्त जीवन देगा।
8 पर जो विवादी हैं, और सत्य को नहीं मानते, वरन अधर्म को मानते हैं, उन पर क्रोध और कोप पड़ेगा।
9 और क्लेश और संकट हर एक मनुष्य के प्राण पर जो बुरा करता है आएगा, पहिले यहूदी पर फिर यूनानी पर।
10 पर महिमा और आदर ओर कल्याण हर एक को मिलेगा, जो भला करता है, पहिले यहूदी को फिर यूनानी को।
11 क्योंकि परमेश्वर किसी का पक्ष नहीं करता।
12 इसलिये कि जिन्हों ने बिना व्यवस्था पाए पाप किया, वे बिना व्यवस्था के नाश भी होंगे, और जिन्हों ने व्यवस्था पाकर पाप किया, उन का दण्ड व्यवस्था के अनुसार होगा।
13 क्योंकि परमेश्वर के यहां व्यवस्था के सुनने वाले धर्मी नहीं, पर व्यवस्था पर चलने वाले धर्मी ठहराए जाएंगे।
14 फिर जब अन्यजाति लोग जिन के पास व्यवस्था नहीं, स्वभाव ही से व्यवस्था की बातों पर चलते हैं, तो व्यवस्था उन के पास न होने पर भी वे अपने लिये आप ही व्यवस्था हैं।
15 वे व्यवस्था की बातें अपने अपने हृदयों में लिखी हुई दिखते हैं और उन के विवेक भी गवाही देते हैं, और उन की चिन्ताएं परस्पर दोष लगाती, या उन्हें निर्दोष ठहराती है।
16 जिस दिन परमेश्वर मेरे सुसमाचार के अनुसार यीशु मसीह के द्वारा मनुष्यों की गुप्त बातों का न्याय करेगा॥
17 यदि तू यहूदी कहलाता है, और व्यवस्था पर भरोसा रखता है, और परमेश्वर के विषय में घमण्ड करता है।
18 और उस की इच्छा जानता और व्यवस्था की शिक्षा पाकर उत्तम उत्तम बातों को प्रिय जानता है।
19 और अपने पर भरोसा रखता है, कि मैं अन्धों का अगुवा, और अन्धकार में पड़े हुओं की ज्योति।
20 और बुद्धिहीनों का सिखाने वाला, और बालकों का उपदेशक हूं, और ज्ञान, और सत्य का नमूना, जो व्यवस्था में है, मुझे मिला है।
21 सो क्या तू जो औरों को सिखाता है, अपने आप को नहीं सिखाता? क्या तू जो चोरी न करने का उपदेश देता है, आप ही चोरी करता है?
22 तू जो कहता है, व्यभिचार न करना, क्या आप ही व्यभिचार करता है? तू जो मूरतों से घृणा करता है, क्या आप ही मन्दिरों को लूटता है।
23 तू जो व्यवस्था के विषय में घमण्ड करता है, क्या व्यवस्था न मानकर, परमेश्वर का अनादर करता है?
24 क्योंकि तुम्हारे कारण अन्यजातियों में परमेश्वर के नाम की निन्दा की जाती है जैसा लिखा भी है।
25 यदि तू व्यवस्था पर चले, तो खतने से लाभ तो है, परन्तु यदि तू व्यवस्था को न माने, तो तेरा खतना बिन खतना की दशा ठहरा।
26 सो यदि खतना रहित मनुष्य व्यवस्था की विधियों को माना करे, तो क्या उस की बिन खतना की दशा खतने के बराबर न गिनी जाएगी?
27 और जो मनुष्य जाति के कारण बिन खतना रहा यदि वह व्यवस्था को पूरा करे, तो क्या तुझे जो लेख पाने और खतना किए जाने पर भी व्यवस्था को माना नहीं करता है, दोषी न ठहराएगा?
28 क्योंकि वह यहूदी नहीं, जो प्रगट में यहूदी है और न वह खतना है जो प्रगट में है, और देह में है।
29 पर यहूदी वही है, जो मन में है; और खतना वही है, जो हृदय का और आत्मा में है; न कि लेख का: ऐसे की प्रशंसा मनुष्यों की ओर से नहीं, परन्तु परमेश्वर की ओर से होती है॥
1 Therefore 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.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For 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.
14 For 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:
15 Which shew 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;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
18 And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But 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.
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.
4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
9 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
25 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.