Romans 2:13

God's Judgment And The Law

¹² All who sin without having the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. ¹³ For merely hearing the law read does not make men upright with God, but men who practice the law will be recognized as upright. ¹⁴ Indeed, when heathen people who have no law instinctively do what the law demands, although they have no law, they are a law to themselves,

Before God

Hearers of the Law

In the Sight of God

Jesus Christ

Law of Moses

With God

Christ

Jesus

Moses

No

Sin

Matthew 7:21-27

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Luke 8:21

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Luke 10:25-29

Just then an expert in the law got up to test Him by asking, "Teacher, what shall I do to get possession of eternal life?"

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man, and not the other, went back home forgiven and accepted by God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Acts 13:39

and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Romans 2:25

Now circumcision benefits you only if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.

Romans 3:20

Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

Romans 3:23

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

Romans 3:30

since there is but one God, who will consider the Jews in right standing with Himself, only on condition of their faith, and the heathen peoples on the same condition.

Romans 4:2-5

For if he was considered in right standing with God on the condition of what he did, he has something to boast of, but not before God.

Romans 10:5

For Moses says of the law-way to right standing with God that whoever can perform the law will live by it.

Galatians 2:16

because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.

Galatians 3:11-12

Now it is evident that through the law no man is brought into right standing with God, for "The man in right standing with God will live by faith,"

Galatians 5:4

You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

James 1:22-25

Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.

James 2:21-25

Was not our forefather Abraham shown to be upright by his good deeds, namely, by offering Isaac his son upon the altar?

1 John 2:29

If you know that He is upright, you must know that everyone who practices uprightness is born of Him.

1 John 3:7

Dear children, avoid letting anyone lead you astray. Whoever practices doing right is upright, just as He is upright.