Romans 2:13

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“For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified”

— WEB

“(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”

— KJV

“for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Justification

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

James 1:22-25 "But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves."
1 John 3:7 "Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous."
James 2:21-25 "Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?"
Romans 2:25 "For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become unc…"
Galatians 2:16 "yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that…"
Romans 10:5 "For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”Leviticus 18:5"
Luke 8:21 "But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”"
Galatians 3:11-12 "Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”Habakkuk 2:4"

Commentary

For not the hearers, &c.--As touching the Jews, in whose ears the written law is continually resounding, the condemnation of as many of them as are found sinners at the last involves no difficulty; but even as respects the heathen, who are strangers to the law in its positive and written form--since they show how deeply it is engraven on their moral nature, which witnesses within them for righteousness and against iniquity, accusing or condemning them according as they violate or obey its stern dictates--their condemnation also for all the sin in which they live and die will carry its dreadful echo in their own breasts.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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