---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Romans from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
  - romans
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 2
verse_count: 29
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Epistle of Paul to the Romans, chap. 2, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1867 scan, cross-checked against a second scan (holyscriptures00smit) and the page images; see docs/jst-romans-1867-decisions.md in the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Romans 2

*They that sin cannot escape the judgment of God.*

**1** Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest thus; 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 long-suffering; 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 show 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 the 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.