Romans 2:13

(for it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

English Majority Text (NT)

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

12For all who have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law

14for whenever Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, these, not having the law, are a law unto themselves,

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

Luke 10:25And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested Him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Acts 13:39and from all things from which you could not (by the Law of Moses) be justified, by Him everyone that believes 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 →

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