Romans 2:13

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Romans 2:13

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

for [it is] not the hearers of [the] law [who are] righteous before God; but the doers of [the] law will be declared righteous.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Romans 2

¹¹ For God does not show favoritism.

¹² All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

¹⁵ So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them

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