Romans 2:12

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Summary

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

For

In the law

Bible References

For

For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

"'See here -- this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

That servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."

Therefore, although God has overlooked such times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent,

In the law

on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened -- the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.