Romans 2:13

For, not the hearers of law, are righteous with God, but, the doers of law, shall be declared righteous;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 without law sinned, without law, also shall perish, and, as many as within law sinned, through law, shall be judged;

14For, whensoever the nations which have not law, by nature, the things of the law, may be doing, the same, not having law, unto themselves, are a law,—

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:1Then called Moses unto all Israel and said unto them—Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the regulations, which I am speaking in your ears to-day,—so shall ye learn them, and observe to do them.

Deuteronomy 30:12It is, not in the heavens,—that thou shouldest say—Who shall ascend for us into the heavens that he may fetch it for us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Ezekiel 20:11Then gave I unto them my statutes, And my regulations, caused I them to know,- By the which the man that doeth them shall live.

Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord! Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens,—but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Luke 10:25And lo! a certain lawyer, arose, putting him to the test, saying—Teacher! by doing what, shall I inherit, life age-abiding?

Acts 13:39And, from all things from which ye could not, by the law of Moses, be justified, by this man, everyone that believeth, is justified.

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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