Romans 2:13

It is not those who hear the words of a Law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.

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(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

In Context

12All who, when they sin, are without Law will also perish without Law; while all who, when they sin, are under Law, will be judged as being under Law.

14When Gentiles, who have no Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they, though they have no Law, are a Law to themselves;

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to me ‘Master! Master!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 10:25Just then a student of the Law came forward to test Jesus further. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do if I am to gain eternal life?”

Acts 13:39and that, in union with him, everyone who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the Law of Moses you could not be absolved.

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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