God’s judgment is Righteous and Fair. Romans 2:1-16 The point of the first chapters of Romans is that we know the righteousness of God demands that a person keeps the law perfectly. By coming to grips with that fact, sinners will realize no matter how good they think they are, or how bad their behavior, everyone of us needs the mercy and grace of God. No one can live up to the perfect standards of God. However, when God was here found in fashion as a man, He was a Perfect Man. The Man, Christ Jesus, was the Son of Man who came here to seek and save the lost.
Connecting words are clues to the logic of a passage of scripture. They may be words relating to time and/or place; purpose and/or conclusion; cause and/or contrast. Comparison words such as “likewise, just as, also, as” give the sense of a point to be made.
The word “therefore,” in verse one of chapter two shows the connection between 1:18-32 and 2:1-16. Wicked people know they should be honoring and obeying God; they know they are doing wrong; they know there is a penalty for wrong-doing and so they are without excuse for their sin before God. “Therefore” those who do the same things are also without excuse even though they may engage is such things inwardly rather than outwardly.
We learn from the first eleven verses of chapter two that profession without practice does not convince those who know and watch us, that Christianity is real. Such a life does not impress God either. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must back up what we profess with how we live. Anything less is hypocrisy. We also learn that truth will ultimately triumph over inconsistency, hypocrisy and deceit. Third, the goodness of God will bring one to repentance when they realize how great the grace of God is.