Romans 2:13
For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the ceremonies and judgments, which I speak in your ears this day: learn them, and fulfil them in work.
Deuteronomy 30:12Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?
Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them.
Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 10:25And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?
Acts 13:39In him every one that believeth, is justified.
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 →