Romans 2:13

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

WEB

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

ASV

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

LSV

for not the hearers of the Law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the Law will be declared righteous.

YLT

for not the hearers of the law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

DBY

(for not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.Elohim

DRC

For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

GNV

(For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: but the doers of the Lawe shalbe iustified.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἀκροαταὶ νόμου δίκαιοι παρὰ τῷ θεῷ, ἀλλʼ οἱ ποιηταὶ νόμου δικαιωθήσονται.

RP2018

οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἀκροαταὶ τοῦ νόμου δίκαιοι παρὰ τῷ θεῷ, ἀλλ’ οἱ ποιηταὶ τοῦ νόμου δικαιωθήσονται.

TR-Boyd

οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἀκροαταὶ τοῦ νόμου δίκαιοι παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ, ἀλλ᾿ οἱ ποιηταὶ τοῦ νόμου δικαιωθήσονται.

SCR1894

ου γαρ οι ακροαται του νομου δικαιοι παρα τω θεω αλλ οι ποιηται του νομου δικαιωθησονται

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• James 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself…
• 1 John 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• James 2:21–25Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did. And the Scripture was…
• Romans 2:25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Luke 8:21But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
• Galatians 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works…
• Galatians 3:11–12Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• 1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Deuteronomy 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
• Luke 10:25–29One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God…
• Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Romans 4:2–5If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now the wages of the…
• Romans 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Deuteronomy 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
• Matthew 7:21–27Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in…

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