Romans 1:19-32 New
International Version (NIV)
since what may be known about
God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible
qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
For although they knew God,
they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking
became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made
to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over
in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of
their bodies with one another. They exchanged
the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather
than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them
over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for
unnatural ones. In the same way the men also
abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one
another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves
the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, just as they did
not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over
to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,
greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters,
insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey
their parents; they have no understanding, no
fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know
God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not
only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice
them.
Unbelievers or New Believers – NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized [1]
Romans 2 New International Version (NIV)
God’s Righteous Judgment
You, therefore, have no excuse,
you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another,
you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God’s judgment
against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere human being, pass
judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s
judgment? Or do you show contempt for the riches
of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is
intended to lead you to repentance?
But because of your
stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against
yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be
revealed. God “will repay each person according
to what they have done.” To those who
by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give
eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking
and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
There will be trouble and distress for every human
being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first
for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does
not show favoritism.
All who sin apart from the law
will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be
judged by the law. For it is not those who hear
the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who
will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when
Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law,
they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on
their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts
sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s
secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Unbelievers or New Believers – NIV Audio Bible, Dramatized[1]
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In Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
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