Romans 2:14

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

In Context

13in the day when God shall judge the secret works of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

15For when the Gentiles, who have not a law, do, by nature, the things of the law, these who have not a law, are a law to themselves,

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Cross References

Acts 10:35but, in every nation, he that fears him and works righteousness is accepted by him.

Acts 17:30Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:

Romans 1:32who, acknowledging the judgment of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but approve those who practice them.

Romans 2:27And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the law?

1 Corinthians 11:14Does not nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Matthew Henry on Romans 2:2-17

Equity of the Divine Government. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and… Read the whole commentary →

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