Romans 2:12 If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you’re doing, that’s a different story entir...

2:12 MSG

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The Message - If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you’re doing, that’s a different story entirely. Merely hearing God’s law is a waste of your time if you don’t do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.
新标点和合本 - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。（
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，将在律法之外灭亡；凡在律法之内犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，将在律法之外灭亡；凡在律法之内犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
当代译本 - 没有上帝律法的人若犯罪，虽然不按律法受审判，仍要灭亡；有上帝律法的人若犯罪，必按律法受审判。
圣经新译本 - 凡不在律法之下犯了罪的，将不按律法而灭亡；凡在律法之下犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
中文标准译本 - 凡是在律法之外犯过罪的，也将要在律法之外灭亡；凡是在律法之下犯过罪的，将要照着律法受审判。
现代标点和合本 - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。
和合本（拼音版） - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。（
New International Version - 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.
New International Reader's Version - Some people do not know God’s law when they sin. They will not be judged by the law when they die. Others do know God’s law when they sin. They will be judged by the law.
English Standard Version - For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
New Living Translation - When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
Christian Standard Bible - For all who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
New American Standard Bible - For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
New King James Version - For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
Amplified Bible - For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.
American Standard Version - For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
King James Version - 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;
New English Translation - For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
World English Bible - For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
新標點和合本 - 凡沒有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法滅亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受審判。（
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，將在律法之外滅亡；凡在律法之內犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，將在律法之外滅亡；凡在律法之內犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
當代譯本 - 沒有上帝律法的人若犯罪，雖然不按律法受審判，仍要滅亡；有上帝律法的人若犯罪，必按律法受審判。
聖經新譯本 - 凡不在律法之下犯了罪的，將不按律法而滅亡；凡在律法之下犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
呂振中譯本 - 凡在律法以外犯了罪的、也必在律法以外去滅亡；凡在律法以內犯了罪的、就要憑着律法來受定罪。
中文標準譯本 - 凡是在律法之外犯過罪的，也將要在律法之外滅亡；凡是在律法之下犯過罪的，將要照著律法受審判。
現代標點和合本 - 凡沒有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法滅亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受審判。
文理和合譯本 - 凡無律獲罪者、亦將無律而淪亡、有律獲罪者、將依律而受鞫、
文理委辦譯本 - 法未立而獲罪者、不以法沉淪之、法已立而獲罪者、將以法審判之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 凡無律法而犯罪者、必無律法而沈淪、凡有律法而犯罪者、必以律法審判之、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 凡犯罪於法外者、沉淪於法外；犯罪於法內者、伏辜於法內。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Todos los que han pecado sin conocer la ley también perecerán sin la ley; y todos los que han pecado conociendo la ley por la ley serán juzgados.
현대인의 성경 - 율법 없이 죄 짓는 사람은 율법에 관계없이 망하고 율법 아래서 죄 짓는 사람은 율법으로 심판을 받을 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Кто грешит, не имея Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Таурате Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Таурате Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Тавроте Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ceux qui ont péché sans avoir eu connaissance de la Loi de Moïse périront sans qu’elle intervienne dans leur jugement. Mais ceux qui ont péché alors qu’ils étaient soumis au régime de la Loi seront jugés conformément à la Loi.
リビングバイブル - 外国人が罪を犯した場合、たとえ彼らが文字に書かれた律法を知らなくてもさばかれます。彼らは心の奥底では、正しいことと悪いこととを区別できるからです。その心の中には、律法が書かれているのです。つまり、彼らの良心が、彼らを責めたり、また時には弁護したりするわけです。ユダヤ人が罪を犯した場合は、神が彼らを罰せられます。律法が与えられているのに従わないからです。彼らは何が正しいかを知りながら、実行しません。結局のところ、なすべきことを知りながら実行しない人はさばかれるのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ὅσοι γὰρ ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καὶ ἀπολοῦνται, καὶ ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ ἥμαρτον, διὰ νόμου κριθήσονται·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὅσοι γὰρ ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καὶ ἀπολοῦνται; καὶ ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ ἥμαρτον, διὰ νόμου κριθήσονται;
Nova Versão Internacional - Todo aquele que pecar sem a Lei, sem a Lei também perecerá, e todo aquele que pecar sob a Lei, pela Lei será julgado.
Hoffnung für alle - Wer also Gottes Willen nicht beachtet und gegen seine Gebote handelt, wird sein Leben auf ewig verlieren, auch wenn er Gottes geschriebenes Gesetz gar nicht kannte. Und wer das Gesetz sehr wohl kannte und dennoch dagegen verstieß, wird von Gott nach dem Gesetz gerichtet werden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Dân Ngoại phạm tội khi chưa biết luật pháp Môi-se, sẽ bị hình phạt, nhưng không chiếu theo luật ấy. Người Do Thái biết luật pháp của Đức Chúa Trời mà phạm tội sẽ bị xét sử theo luật pháp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - คนทั้งปวงที่ไม่มีบทบัญญัติและได้ทำบาปจะพินาศโดยไม่ต้องอ้างถึงบทบัญญัติ และคนทั้งปวงที่อยู่ภายใต้บทบัญญัติและได้ทำบาปจะถูกตัดสินตามบทบัญญัติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทุกคนที่ทำบาปโดยไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ จะพินาศโดยไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ และทุกคนที่ได้ทำบาปโดยอยู่ภายใต้กฎบัญญัติ จะถูกกล่าวโทษโดยกฎบัญญัติ

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Acts 17:30 - “God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he’s calling for a radical life-change. He has set a day when the entire human race will be judged and everything set right. And he has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by raising him from the dead.”
John 19:11 - Jesus said, “You haven’t a shred of authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That’s why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault.”
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
Ezekiel 16:49 - “‘The sin of your sister Sodom was this: She lived with her daughters in the lap of luxury—proud, gluttonous, and lazy. They ignored the oppressed and the poor. They put on airs and lived obscene lives. And you know what happened: I did away with them.
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Luke 10:13 - “Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they’d have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy. Tyre and Sidon will have it easy on Judgment Day compared to you.
Luke 10:15 - “And you, Capernaum! Do you think you’re about to be promoted to heaven? Think again. You’re on a fast track to hell.
Romans 2:14 - When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God’s yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman. The Message from God that I proclaim through Jesus Christ takes into account all these differences.
Romans 1:18 - But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
Luke 12:47 - “The servant who knows what his master wants and ignores it, or insolently does whatever he pleases, will be thoroughly thrashed. But if he does a poor job through ignorance, he’ll get off with a slap on the hand. Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
2 Corinthians 3:9 - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
Galatians 2:17 - Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren’t perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous. If I was “trying to be good,” I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a pretender.
Galatians 2:19 - What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.

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交叉引用

The Message - If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account. But if you sin knowing full well what you’re doing, that’s a different story entirely. Merely hearing God’s law is a waste of your time if you don’t do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.
新标点和合本 - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。（
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，将在律法之外灭亡；凡在律法之内犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，将在律法之外灭亡；凡在律法之内犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
当代译本 - 没有上帝律法的人若犯罪，虽然不按律法受审判，仍要灭亡；有上帝律法的人若犯罪，必按律法受审判。
圣经新译本 - 凡不在律法之下犯了罪的，将不按律法而灭亡；凡在律法之下犯了罪的，将按律法受审判。
中文标准译本 - 凡是在律法之外犯过罪的，也将要在律法之外灭亡；凡是在律法之下犯过罪的，将要照着律法受审判。
现代标点和合本 - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。
和合本（拼音版） - 凡没有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法灭亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受审判。（
New International Version - 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.
New International Reader's Version - Some people do not know God’s law when they sin. They will not be judged by the law when they die. Others do know God’s law when they sin. They will be judged by the law.
English Standard Version - For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
New Living Translation - When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it.
Christian Standard Bible - For all who sin without the law will also perish without the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
New American Standard Bible - For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;
New King James Version - For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law
Amplified Bible - For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.
American Standard Version - For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
King James Version - 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;
New English Translation - For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
World English Bible - For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
新標點和合本 - 凡沒有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法滅亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受審判。（
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，將在律法之外滅亡；凡在律法之內犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 凡在律法之外犯了罪的，將在律法之外滅亡；凡在律法之內犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
當代譯本 - 沒有上帝律法的人若犯罪，雖然不按律法受審判，仍要滅亡；有上帝律法的人若犯罪，必按律法受審判。
聖經新譯本 - 凡不在律法之下犯了罪的，將不按律法而滅亡；凡在律法之下犯了罪的，將按律法受審判。
呂振中譯本 - 凡在律法以外犯了罪的、也必在律法以外去滅亡；凡在律法以內犯了罪的、就要憑着律法來受定罪。
中文標準譯本 - 凡是在律法之外犯過罪的，也將要在律法之外滅亡；凡是在律法之下犯過罪的，將要照著律法受審判。
現代標點和合本 - 凡沒有律法犯了罪的，也必不按律法滅亡；凡在律法以下犯了罪的，也必按律法受審判。
文理和合譯本 - 凡無律獲罪者、亦將無律而淪亡、有律獲罪者、將依律而受鞫、
文理委辦譯本 - 法未立而獲罪者、不以法沉淪之、法已立而獲罪者、將以法審判之、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 凡無律法而犯罪者、必無律法而沈淪、凡有律法而犯罪者、必以律法審判之、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 凡犯罪於法外者、沉淪於法外；犯罪於法內者、伏辜於法內。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Todos los que han pecado sin conocer la ley también perecerán sin la ley; y todos los que han pecado conociendo la ley por la ley serán juzgados.
현대인의 성경 - 율법 없이 죄 짓는 사람은 율법에 관계없이 망하고 율법 아래서 죄 짓는 사람은 율법으로 심판을 받을 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Кто грешит, не имея Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Таурате Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Таурате Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Кто грешит, не имея изложенного в Тавроте Закона, тот вне Закона и погибнет, а кто грешит, зная этот Закон, тот по Закону и будет судим.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ceux qui ont péché sans avoir eu connaissance de la Loi de Moïse périront sans qu’elle intervienne dans leur jugement. Mais ceux qui ont péché alors qu’ils étaient soumis au régime de la Loi seront jugés conformément à la Loi.
リビングバイブル - 外国人が罪を犯した場合、たとえ彼らが文字に書かれた律法を知らなくてもさばかれます。彼らは心の奥底では、正しいことと悪いこととを区別できるからです。その心の中には、律法が書かれているのです。つまり、彼らの良心が、彼らを責めたり、また時には弁護したりするわけです。ユダヤ人が罪を犯した場合は、神が彼らを罰せられます。律法が与えられているのに従わないからです。彼らは何が正しいかを知りながら、実行しません。結局のところ、なすべきことを知りながら実行しない人はさばかれるのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Ὅσοι γὰρ ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καὶ ἀπολοῦνται, καὶ ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ ἥμαρτον, διὰ νόμου κριθήσονται·
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὅσοι γὰρ ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καὶ ἀπολοῦνται; καὶ ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ ἥμαρτον, διὰ νόμου κριθήσονται;
Nova Versão Internacional - Todo aquele que pecar sem a Lei, sem a Lei também perecerá, e todo aquele que pecar sob a Lei, pela Lei será julgado.
Hoffnung für alle - Wer also Gottes Willen nicht beachtet und gegen seine Gebote handelt, wird sein Leben auf ewig verlieren, auch wenn er Gottes geschriebenes Gesetz gar nicht kannte. Und wer das Gesetz sehr wohl kannte und dennoch dagegen verstieß, wird von Gott nach dem Gesetz gerichtet werden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Dân Ngoại phạm tội khi chưa biết luật pháp Môi-se, sẽ bị hình phạt, nhưng không chiếu theo luật ấy. Người Do Thái biết luật pháp của Đức Chúa Trời mà phạm tội sẽ bị xét sử theo luật pháp.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - คนทั้งปวงที่ไม่มีบทบัญญัติและได้ทำบาปจะพินาศโดยไม่ต้องอ้างถึงบทบัญญัติ และคนทั้งปวงที่อยู่ภายใต้บทบัญญัติและได้ทำบาปจะถูกตัดสินตามบทบัญญัติ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทุกคนที่ทำบาปโดยไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ จะพินาศโดยไม่มีกฎบัญญัติ และทุกคนที่ได้ทำบาปโดยอยู่ภายใต้กฎบัญญัติ จะถูกกล่าวโทษโดยกฎบัญญัติ

Acts 17:30 - “God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past. The unknown is now known, and he’s calling for a radical life-change. He has set a day when the entire human race will be judged and everything set right. And he has already appointed the judge, confirming him before everyone by raising him from the dead.”
John 19:11 - Jesus said, “You haven’t a shred of authority over me except what has been given you from heaven. That’s why the one who betrayed me to you has committed a far greater fault.”
Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
Ezekiel 16:49 - “‘The sin of your sister Sodom was this: She lived with her daughters in the lap of luxury—proud, gluttonous, and lazy. They ignored the oppressed and the poor. They put on airs and lived obscene lives. And you know what happened: I did away with them.
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Luke 10:13 - “Doom, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had been given half the chances given you, they’d have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy. Tyre and Sidon will have it easy on Judgment Day compared to you.
Luke 10:15 - “And you, Capernaum! Do you think you’re about to be promoted to heaven? Think again. You’re on a fast track to hell.
Romans 2:14 - When outsiders who have never heard of God’s law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God’s law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God’s yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God’s yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman. The Message from God that I proclaim through Jesus Christ takes into account all these differences.
Romans 1:18 - But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
Luke 12:47 - “The servant who knows what his master wants and ignores it, or insolently does whatever he pleases, will be thoroughly thrashed. But if he does a poor job through ignorance, he’ll get off with a slap on the hand. Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
2 Corinthians 3:9 - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
Galatians 2:17 - Have some of you noticed that we are not yet perfect? (No great surprise, right?) And are you ready to make the accusation that since people like me, who go through Christ in order to get things right with God, aren’t perfectly virtuous, Christ must therefore be an accessory to sin? The accusation is frivolous. If I was “trying to be good,” I would be rebuilding the same old barn that I tore down. I would be acting as a pretender.
Galatians 2:19 - What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn’t work. So I quit being a “law man” so that I could be God’s man. Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.