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 all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

14For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what is required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

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Cross References

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

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

Acts 13:39and by this man everyone who believes is acquitted of everything you could not be acquitted of 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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