Romans 2:9
Good News Translation
There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles.

New Revised Standard Version
There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

Contemporary English Version
All who are wicked will be punished with trouble and suffering. It doesn't matter if they are Jews or Gentiles.

New American Bible
Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

Tribulation.

Proverbs 1:27,28 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me: . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

soul.

Ezekiel 18:4 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

of the Jew.

Romans 2:10 But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the Greek.

Romans 3:29,30 Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? yes, of the Gentiles also. . . .

Romans 4:9-12 This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice. . . .

Romans 9:24 Even us, whom also he hath called, not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles.

Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek: for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon him.

Romans 15:8,9 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: . . .

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

Matthew 11:20-24 Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his miracles, for that they had not done penance. . . .

Luke 2:30-32 Because my eyes have seen thy salvation, . . .

Luke 12:47,48 And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. . . .

Luke 24:47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 3:26 To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

Acts 11:18 Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

Acts 13:26,46,47 Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God: to you the word of this salvation is sent. . . .

Acts 18:5,6 And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. . . .

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:20 But to them first that are at Damascus and at Jerusalem, and unto all the country of Judea, and to the Gentiles did I preach, that they should do penance and turn to God, doing works worthy of penance.

Acts 28:17,28 And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. . . .

Galatians 2:15,16 We by nature are Jews: and not of the Gentiles, sinners. . . .

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:11-17 For which cause be mindful that you, being heretofore gentiles is the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands: . . .

Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all and in all.

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

Gentile.

Context
God's Righteous Judgment
8But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. 9Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that worketh evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Greek. 10But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:23
Then hear thou from heaven, and do justice to thy servants, so to requite the wicked by making his wickedness fall upon his own head, and to revenge the just, rewarding him according to his justice.

Psalm 32:10
Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.

Proverbs 11:23
Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.

Ezekiel 22:31
And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head, saith the Lord God.

Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

Acts 3:26
To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and to the Greek.

Romans 2:10
But glory and honour and peace to every one that worketh good: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 8:35
Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword?

1 Peter 4:17
For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

Romans 2:8
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