Romans 2:13

God's Judgment And The Law

¹² For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law. ¹³ For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified. ¹⁴ For whenever gentiles, who do not possess the Law, do instinctively what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law.

Before God

Hearers of the Law

In the Sight of God

Jesus Christ

Law of Moses

With God

Christ

Jesus

Moses

No

Sin

Deuteronomy 4:1

"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 5:1

Moses called all of Israel together and told them: "Listen, Israel! Today I'm going to announce God's laws and regulations so that you will learn them and take care to obey them.

Deuteronomy 6:3

Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you'll have a land flowing with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 30:12-14

They aren't in the heavens, so you have to ask, "Who'll go up to the heavens for us and get it for us so we can hear it and act on it?'

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

Ezekiel 20:11

where I gave them my statutes and revealed my ordinances to them, which if a person observes, he'll live by them.

Ezekiel 33:30-33

"Now as for you, Son of Man, your nation's children keep gathering together to talk about you beside the walls and at the doorway to their houses. Everyone tells one another, "Please come! Let's go hear what the LORD has to say!'

Matthew 7:21-27

"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Luke 8:21

But he answered those people, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear a message from God and heed it."

Luke 10:25-29

Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man, rather than the other one, went down to his home justified, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted."

Acts 13:39

and that everyone who believes in him is justified and freed from everything that kept you from being justified by the Law of Moses.

Romans 2:25

For circumcision is valuable if you observe the Law, but if you break the Law, your having been circumcised has no more value than if you were uncircumcised.

Romans 3:20

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

Romans 3:23

since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God's glory.

Romans 3:30

since there is only one God who will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised by that same faith.

Romans 4:2-5

For if Abraham was justified by actions, he would have had something to boast about though not before God.

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that comes from the Law as follows: "The person who obeys these things will find life by them."

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.

Galatians 3:11-12

Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."

Galatians 5:4

Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

James 1:22-25

Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.

James 2:21-25

Our ancestor Abraham was justified by his actions when he offered his son Isaac on the altar, wasn't he?

1 John 2:29

Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.

1 John 3:7

Little children, don't let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.