Romans 2
aligned by seat — same row, same verse, whatever each bible numbers it
| v | Wycliffe |
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| 1 | Wherfor thou art vnexcusable, ech man that demest, for in what thing thou demest anothir man, thou condempnest thi silf; for thou doist the same thingis whiche thou demest. |
| 2 | And we witen, that the doom of God is aftir treuthe ayens hem, that don siche thingis. |
| 3 | But gessist thou, man, that demest hem that doen siche thingis, and thou doist tho thingis, that thou schalt ascape the doom of God? |
| 4 | Whether `dispisist thou the richessis of his goodnesse, and the pacience, and the long abidyng? Knowist thou not, that the benygnyte of God ledith thee to forthenkyng? |
| 5 | But aftir thin hardnesse and vnrepentaunt herte, thou tresorist to thee wraththe in the dai of wraththe and of schewyng of the riytful doom of God, |
| 6 | that schal yelde to ech man aftir his werkis; |
| 7 | sotheli to hem that ben bi pacience of good werk, glorie, and onour, and vncorrupcioun, to hem that seken euerlastynge lijf; |
| 8 | but to hem that ben of strijf, and that assenten not to treuthe, but bileuen to wickidnesse, wraththe and indignacioun, tribulacioun and angwisch, |
| 9 | in to ech soule of man that worchith yuel, to the Jew first, and to the Greke; |
| 10 | but glorie, and honour, and pees, to ech man that worchith good thing, to the Jew first, and to the Greke. |
| 11 | For accepcioun of persones is not anentis God. |
| 12 | For who euere han synned without the lawe, schulen perische withouten the lawe; and who euere han synned in the lawe, thei schulen be demyd bi the lawe. |
| 13 | For the hereris of lawe ben not iust anentis God, but the doeris of the lawe schulen be maad iust. |
| 14 | For whanne hethene men that han not lawe, don kyndli tho thingis that ben of the lawe, thei not hauynge suche manere lawe, ben lawe to hem silf, |
| 15 | that schewen the werk of the lawe writun in her hertis. For the conscience of hem yeldith to hem a witnessyng bytwixe hem silf of thouytis that ben accusynge or defendynge, |
| 16 | in the dai whanne God schal deme the priuy thingis of men aftir my gospel, bi Jhesu Crist. |
| 17 | But if thou art named a Jew, and restist in the lawe, and hast glorie in God, |
| 18 | and hast knowe his wille, and thou lerud bi lawe preuest the more profitable thingis, |
| 19 | and tristist thi silf to be a ledere of blynde men, the liyt of hem that ben in derknessis, |
| 20 | a techere of vnwise men, a maistir of yonge children, that hast the foorme of kunnyng and of treuthe in the lawe; |
| 21 | what thanne techist thou another, and techist not thi silf? Thou that prechist that me schal not stele, stelist? |
| 22 | Thou that techist that me schal `do no letcherie, doist letcherie? Thou that wlatist maumetis, doist sacrilegie? |
| 23 | Thou that hast glorie in the lawe, vnworschipist God bi brekyng of the lawe? |
| 24 | For the name of God is blasfemed bi you among hethene men, as is writun. |
| 25 | For circumcisioun profitith, if thou kepe the lawe; but if thou be a trespassour ayens the lawe, thi circumsicioun is maad prepucie. |
| 26 | Therfor if prepucie kepe the riytwisnessis of the lawe, whethir his prepucie schal not be arettid in to circumcisioun? |
| 27 | And the prepucie of kynde that fulfillith the lawe, schal deme thee, that bi lettre and circumcisioun art trespassour ayens the lawe. |
| 28 | For he that is in opene is not a Jew, nether it is circumsicioun that is openli in the fleisch; |
| 29 | but he that is a Jew in hid, and the circumcisioun of herte, in spirit, not bi the lettre, whos preisyng is not of men, but of God. |