More talk with God from Romans 2-3

2 We have deserved Your judgment, and we make our case much worse by judging others, and doing the things that we judge in them. You will render to each one according to his works. There is a day of wrath coming. Who can stand in that day? There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good. How can we be judged as those who have done good? Your law is written on our consciences. It will not be the hearers of the law that will be justified in Your sight, but the doers of the law. Even our secrets will be known and judged by You. How will we be declared not guilty? It is one thing to teach others the Ten Commandments; it is another to actually keep these precepts. It won’t be enough for us to have the outward mark of the sacraments of Your church if we are law-breakers.

3 It is great to be a part of Your church. There we hear Your Word. But we see our guilt by Your Word. How can we be delivered from the mess of our guilt. We will only be found to be law-breakers along with all the wicked, both those who have been in the church and those who have been outside it. But now You have revealed to us another way, through faith in the one Law-Keeper, who also became for us the one Sin-Bearer. We have been justified by faith apart from the works of the Law.