Romans 2:13

(for not the hearers of the law, are righteous before God; but the doers of the law are justified;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 those without law, who sin, will also perish without law; and those under the law, who sin, will be judged by the law,

14for if Gentiles who have not the law, shall, by their nature, do the things of the law; they, while without the law, become a law to themselves:

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21Not whoever may say to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 10:25And behold, a Scribe stood up to try him, and said: Teacher, what must I do, to inherit eternal life?

Acts 13:39And every one that believeth in this man, is made just from all things, from which ye could not be made just 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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