The Lord said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: “Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.”
Romans 2:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified; Common English Bible 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 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 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. |
The Lord said to me, ‘Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: “Obey the words of this covenant and carry them out.”
Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them #– #the person who does them will live by them.
I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’
But he replied to them, ‘My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.’
Everyone who believes is justified through him from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.
since Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them. ,
Circumcision benefits you if you observe the law; but if you are a lawbreaker, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
For no one will be justified in his sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
For I am not conscious of anything against myself, but I am not justified by this. It is the Lord who judges me.
and yet because we know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus. This was so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.
‘Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you.
Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, ‘Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am proclaiming as you hear them today. Learn and follow them carefully.
Listen, Israel, and be careful to follow them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly, because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you a land flowing with milk and honey.
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
If you know that he is righteous, you know this as well: Everyone who does what is right has been born of him.
Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.