God’s Righteous Judgment

(Psalm 75:1–10)

2 You, therefore, have no excuse, [you] who pass judgment [on another]. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because [you who] pass judgment do the same things. 2 And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 [So when] [you], O man, pass judgment on [others], yet do the same things do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for [the] day of wrath, [when] God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 [God] “will repay each one according to his deeds.”[fn] 7 To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, [He will give] eternal life. 8 But for those who [are] self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, [there will be] wrath and anger.

9 [There will be] trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek. 11 For God does not show favoritism.

12 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. 13 For [it is] not the hearers of [the] law [who are] righteous before God, but [it is] the doers of [the] law [who] will be declared righteous.

14 Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have [the] law, do by nature what the law [requires], they are a law to themselves, [even though] they do not have [the] law. 15 [So] they show [that] the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, [and] their thoughts either accusing or defending [them] 16 on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus,[fn] as proclaimed by my gospel.