Romans 2:12 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹² For all those people [i.e., Gentiles] who have sinned without [knowing] the Law of Moses will also be lost without [knowing] that law. And all those people [i.e., Jews] who have sinned under [the authority] of the Law of Moses will be judged by [the requirements of] that law.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² All who have sinned without the Law will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

Common English Bible

¹² Those who have sinned outside the Law will also die outside the Law, and those who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law.

Romans 2:12 Cross References

Matthew 11:22

But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will be shown more leniency on the judgment day than you people will.

Matthew 11:24

But I say to you, Sodom will be shown more leniency on the judgment day than you will.”

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would not have any authority over me unless it were given to you from above [i.e., from God]. So, the person who turned me over to you is guilty of a worse sin.”

Acts 2:23

Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.

Romans 1:32

These people know that God’s decrees require that those who practice such things deserve to die [i.e., either spiritual or temporal punishment], yet they not only do the same things [themselves], but even approve of other people who practice them.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings [God’s] wrath [i.e., because of man’s failure to obey it perfectly], but where there is no law, there is no [responsibility for] sin.

Romans 8:3

For what the law was not able to do [for mankind], since it was [too] weak [to deliver them from condemnation] because fleshly people [were unable to obey it perfectly], God condemned sin in the flesh [i.e., sin was declared evil and its power over man broken]. God did this by sending His own Son in a body like sinful man’s, and to destroy sin,

1 Corinthians 9:21

I [also] behaved like a person without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., a Gentile] in front of those who are not obligated to it, although I was not [really] without obligation to God’s law; but was under [obligation to] Christ’s law. I did this to win those who are without [obligation to observe] the law [i.e., Gentiles].

Galatians 3:10

For all who seek to be right with God by trying to meet all the requirements of the Law of Moses are under a curse [from God], because it is written [Deut. 27:26], “Every person is cursed [i.e., cut off from God] who does not continue to obey all of the requirements written in the Law of Moses.”

Galatians 3:22

But the Scriptures indicate that everything [i.e., everyone] is under the control of sin, so that the promise [of never ending life] could be available [only] to those who have faith in Jesus Christ.

James 2:10

For, whoever observes the entire law [of God] and yet breaks one requirement [of it], becomes guilty of [breaking] all of it.