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

James 2:21

Bible References

For not

Circumcision indeed is an advantage, if you keep the law: but if you violate the law, your being a Jew makes you no better than a heathen.

Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven.

but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it.

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

since you know that God is the source of virtue, you know that every one who has virtue, derives it from him.

dear children, let no man deceive you: only he that acts justly is just, as he is just.

But the

for by the observation of the law no one shall be justified in his sight, since it is the law that takes cognizance of sin.

For Moses describes the justice that was to be had by the law, thus : "the man who performeth the things here required, shall have life thereby."

Then a doctor of the law stood up to try him, saying, master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

but that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, is evident: for, " the just shall live by faith."

Justified

since it is one God, who will justify both the Jews and the Gentiles, through faith.

for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.

I tell you this man went home approv'd as just, and not the other. for whoever exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in him, and not by the works of the law, by which there is no justification.

Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.

was not our father Abraham treated as just, in consequence of his actions, when he had attempted to sacrifice his son upon the altar?