Romans 2:13

The Passion Translation

For it’s not merely knowing the law that makes you right with God, but doing all that the law says that will cause God to pronounce you innocent.

Cross References

Psalm 143:2

Don’t bring me into your courtroom for judgment, for there is no one who is righteous before you.

Jeremiah 11:6

Then Yahweh said to me: “Preach this message 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 laws and taught them my commands, so that they would follow them and live by them.

Luke 18:14

“Which one of them left for home that day reconciled to God? The humble tax collector, not the religious leader! For everyone who praises himself will one day be publicly humiliated, and everyone who humbles himself will one day be publicly honored and lifted up.”

Luke 8:21

Jesus told the crowd, “These who come to listen to me are like my mother and my brothers. They’re the ones who long to hear God’s words and put them into practice.”

John 13:17

So now put into practice what I have done for you, and you will experience a life of happiness enriched with untold blessings!”

Acts 13:39

Everyone who believes in him is set free from sin and guilt—something the law of Moses had no power to do.

Romans 10:5

Moses wrote long ago about the need to obey every part of the law in order to be declared right with God: “The one who obeys these things must always live by them.”

Romans 2:25

You trust in the covenant sign of circumcision, yet circumcision only has value if you faithfully keep the teachings of the law. But if you violate the law, you have invalidated your circumcision.

Romans 3:20

For by the merit of observing the law no one earns the status of being declared righteous before God, for it is the law that fully exposes and unmasks the reality of sin.

Romans 3:23

for we all have sinned and are in need of the glory of God.

Romans 3:30

Since there is only one God, he will treat us all the same—he eliminates our guilt and makes us right with him by faith no matter who we are.

1 Corinthians 4:4

even though my conscience is clear. But that doesn’t mean I stand acquitted before the Lord, for the only judge I care about is him!

Galatians 2:16

we know that no one receives God’s perfect righteousness as a reward for keeping the law, but only by the faith of Jesus, the Messiah! His faithfulness has saved us, and we have received God’s perfect righteousness. Now we know that God accepts no one by the keeping of religious laws!

Galatians 5:4

If you want to be made right with God by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from Christ and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!

James 1:27

True spirituality that is pure in the eyes of our Father God is to make a difference in the lives of the orphans, and widows in their troubles, and to refuse to be corrupted by the world’s values.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who lives in righteousness has been divinely fathered by him.

1 John 3:7

Delightfully loved children, don’t let anyone divert you from this truth. The person who keeps doing what is right proves that he is righteous before God, even as the Messiah is righteous.