Romans 2:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Romans 2:13 Cross References

Psalm 143:2

Enter not into judgment with thy servant; for no man living is righteous before thee.

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.

Ezekiel 20:11

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

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 8:21

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

John 13:17

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

Acts 13:39

and by him every one that believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it.

Romans 2:25

Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law; but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Romans 3:20

For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:23

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

Romans 3:30

since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised through their faith.

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.

Galatians 2:16

yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified.

Galatians 5:4

You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“And now, O Israel, give heed to the statutes and the ordinances which I teach you, and do them; that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Deuteronomy 5:1

And Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them; that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that every one who does right is born of him.

1 John 3:7

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