Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of law who are righteous in the eyes of God; nay, it is the doers of law who will be accounted righteous.

Montgomery New Testament

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

14For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

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Cross References

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

Luke 10:25Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Acts 13:39"and that by him every one that believes is justified from all things from which you could never be justified 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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