Romans 2:13

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Summary

Romans 2:13

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

For not

But the

Justified

Bible References

For not

For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

"Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I [am] teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go [in] and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, [is] giving to you.

And [then] Moses summoned all [of] Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the rules and the regulations that I [am] speaking in your ears {today}, and you shall learn them, and {you must observe them diligently}.

And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe [these instructions], so that {it may go well for you} and that you may multiply greatly, [just] as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, {promised} you, [in] a land with milk and honey.

It is not in the heavens {so that you might say}, 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?'

and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.

"And you, son of man, {your people}, the ones talking together concerning you beside the walls and in the doorways of the houses, each one with his brother {saying}, 'Please come and hear what [is] the word {that is going out from Yahweh}.'

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

But the

For by the works of the law {no person will be declared righteous} before him, for through the law [comes] knowledge of sin.

For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."

And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?"

Now [it is] clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith."

Justified

since God [is] one, who will justify {those who are circumcised} by faith and {those who are uncircumcised} through faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive [is] righteous before you.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

by this one everyone who believes is justified!

but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may 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 are estranged from Christ, [you] who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works [when he] offered up his son Isaac on the altar?