2nd Sunday after Pentecost
Romans 2: 10 - 16

A reading - from the Letter of St. Paul the apostle to the Romans

Brothers and sisters: There will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who has done good, likewise the Jew first, then the Greek. With God there is no | favorit| ism.

Sinners who do not have the law will perish without reference to it; sinners bound by the law will be judged in accordance | with | it.

For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; it is those who keep it who will be de| clared | just.

When Gentiles who do not have the law keep it as by instinct, these men although without the law serve as a law for | them| selves.

They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts. Their conscience bears witness together with that law, and their thoughts will accuse or defend them on | the | day

when, in accordance with the gospel I preach, God will pass judgement on the secrets of men - through - Christ - Jesus.