Romans 2:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall 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

My little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:

Romans 2:25

For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

Galatians 2:16

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, save through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

1 John 2:29

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writeth that the man that doeth the righteousness which is of the law shall live thereby.

Luke 8:21

But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

Romans 3:30

if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

Acts 13:39

and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Luke 18:14

I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Ezekiel 20:11

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgements, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

Psalm 143:2

And enter not into judgement with thy servant; For in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Deuteronomy 5:1

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the judgements which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.

Deuteronomy 4:1

And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the judgements, which I teach you, for to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

Galatians 5:4

Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Romans 3:20

because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Jeremiah 11:6

And the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

John 13:17

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

1 Corinthians 4:4

For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

James 1:27

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.