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, since they show that the requirements of
the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing
witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending
them.)This will take place on the day when God will judge men's
secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
(Romans 2:9-16)
