Romans 2:13 KJV — MannaFest

Romans 2:13

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

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

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

WEB

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

YLT

for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --

DBT

(for not the hearers of the law [are] just beforeGod, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

About this book

New Testament

▾

Romans — Paul's gospel set out in order. Four great movements: sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty — closing with sustained calls to service and unity.

Author: Paul the apostle, dictated to Tertius (Rom 16:22)
Date: c. AD 57, from Corinth before the Jerusalem offering

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 2 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

34 verses on the floor

James 1:22
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
James 2:21–25
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Romans 2:25
For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

Show all 34 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

), upon this principle, that that which is the rule of man's obedience is the rule of God's judgment. Three degrees of light are revealed to the children of men:-- 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This the apostle here opposes: it was a great privilege that they had the law, but not a saving privilege, unless they lived up to the law they had, which it is certain the Jews did not, and therefore they had need of a righteousness wherein to appear before God. We may apply it to the gospel: it is not hearing, but doing that will save us, John xiii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

On this verse

loading…

Words4

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

G134438× in canon G134279× in canon G3551192× in canon G3844192× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: Romans 2 →