Romans 2:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who will be judged as having righteousness before God, but only the doers:
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In The King James Version
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.
Deuteronomy 30:12They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?
Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
Luke 10:25And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
Acts 13:39And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.
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 →