Romans 2:12
For whosoever have sinned without the law, shall perish without the law; and whosoever have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
11For there is no respect of persons with God.
13For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:49Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor.
Matthew 11:24But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Luke 12:47And 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.
Acts 17:30And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men, that all should every where do penance.
Romans 1:32Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
Romans 3:19Now we know, that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be made subject to God.
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 →