Romans 2:13

English Standard Version 2016

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Cross References

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

Romans 2:25

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

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also 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 no one will be justified.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.

Luke 8:21

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

Romans 3:30

since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Acts 13:39

and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Luke 18:14

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

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.

Psalm 143:2

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

Deuteronomy 5:1

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

Deuteronomy 4:1

“And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Galatians 5:4

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

Romans 3:23

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

Romans 3:20

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

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.

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, blessed are you if you do them.

1 Corinthians 4:4

For 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 visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.