Romans 2:13

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

Revised King James 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 as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:21Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 10:25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tested him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Acts 13:39And by him all who believe are justified from all the things from which you could not 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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