Romans 2:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight but the doers of the law who will be justified.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For it is not merely hearing the Law [read] that makes one righteous before God, but it is the doers of the Law who will be held guiltless and acquitted and justified.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

Common English Bible

¹³ It isn’t the ones who hear the Law who are righteous in God’s eyes. It is the ones who do what the Law says who will be treated as righteous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.

Romans 2:13 Cross References

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

Romans 2:25

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

1 John 2:29

If you perceive that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who does right has been born of him.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

Luke 8:21

But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

Romans 3:30

since God is one, and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

Acts 13:39

by this Jesus everyone who believes is set free from all those sins from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

Deuteronomy 5:1

Moses convened all Israel and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I am addressing to you today; you shall learn them and observe them diligently.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.

Galatians 5:4

You who want to be reckoned as righteous by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

Jeremiah 11:6

And the Lord said to me: Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.