Romans 2:13
for not the hearers of the law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —
Young's Literal Translation
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:1And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, 'Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.
Deuteronomy 30:12It is not in the heavens, — saying, Who doth go up for us into the heavens, and doth take it for us, and doth cause us to hear it — that we may do it.
Ezekiel 20:11And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth — liveth by them.
Matthew 7:21'Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
Luke 10:25And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'
Acts 13:39and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;
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 →