Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

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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.

In Context

12For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law; while as many as have sinned with law will be judged by law.

14(indeed, whenever the ethnic nations that do not have law do by nature the things of the law, these, although not having law, are a law to themselves;

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will go into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 10:25And then, a certain lawyer stood up to test Him, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Acts 13:39and by Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the Law of Moses.

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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