Romans 2:13
for not the hearers of the Law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the Law will be declared righteous.
Literal Standard Version
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 calls to all Israel and says to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears today, and you have learned them and have observed to do them.
Deuteronomy 30:12It is not in the heavens, saying, Who goes up into the heavens for us, and takes it for us, and causes us to hear it, that we may do it?
Ezekiel 20:11And I give My statutes to them, || And I caused them to know My judgments, || Which the man who does—lives by them.
Matthew 7:21Not everyone who is saying to Me, Lord, Lord, will come into the kingdom of the heavens, but he who is doing the will of My Father who is in the heavens.
Luke 10:25And behold, a certain lawyer stood up, trying Him, and saying, “Teacher, what having done, will I inherit continuous life?”
Acts 13:39and from all things in the Law of Moses from which you were not able to be declared righteous, everyone who is believing in this One is declared righteous;
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 →