Romans 2:13

New Century Version

Hearing the law does not make people right with God. It is those who obey the law who will be right with him.

Cross References

Psalm 143:2

Don’t judge me, your servant, because no one alive is right before you.

Jeremiah 11:6

The Lord said to me, “Announce this message in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the words of this agreement and obey them.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my rules and told them about my laws, by which people will live if they obey them.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, when this man went home, he was right with God, but the Pharisee was not. All who make themselves great will be made humble, but all who make themselves humble will be made great.”

Luke 8:21

Jesus answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God’s teaching and obey it!”

John 13:17

If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, “A person who obeys these things will live because of them.”

Romans 2:25

If you follow the law, your circumcision has meaning. But if you break the law, it is as if you were never circumcised.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 3:23

Everyone has sinned and fallen short of God’s glorious standard,

Romans 3:30

Of course he is, because there is only one God. He will make Jews right with him by their faith, and he will also make those who are not Jews right with him through their faith.

1 Corinthians 4:4

I know of no wrong I have done, but this does not make me right before the Lord. The Lord is the One who judges me.

Galatians 2:16

Yet we know that a person is made right with God not by following the law, but by trusting in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we might be made right with God because we trusted in Christ. It is not because we followed the law, because no one can be made right with God by following the law.

Galatians 5:4

If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God’s grace.

Deuteronomy 4:1

Now, Israel, listen to the laws and commands I will teach you. Obey them so that you will live and so that you will go over and take the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you.

Deuteronomy 5:1

Moses called all the people of Israel together and said: Listen, Israel, to the commands and laws I am giving you today. Learn them and obey them carefully.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Listen, Israel, and carefully obey these laws. Then all will go well for you, and you will become a great nation in a fertile land, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

James 1:27

Religion that God accepts as pure and without fault is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help, and keeping yourself free from the world’s evil influence.

1 John 2:29

Since you know that Christ is righteous, you know that all who do right are God’s children.

1 John 3:7

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you the wrong way. Christ is righteous. So to be like Christ a person must do what is right.