Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. New Living Translation For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight. English Standard Version For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Berean Standard Bible For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. Berean Literal Bible for not the hearers of the Law are righteous with God; but the doers of the Law will be justified. King James Bible (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. New King James Version (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; New American Standard Bible for it is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Law who will be justified. NASB 1995 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. NASB 1977 for not the hearers of the Law are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. Legacy Standard Bible For it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. Amplified Bible For it is not those who merely hear the Law [as it is read aloud] who are just or righteous before God, but it is those who [actually] obey the Law who will be justified [pronounced free of the guilt of sin and declared acceptable to Him]. Christian Standard Bible For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. Holman Christian Standard Bible For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. American Standard Version for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified: Aramaic Bible in Plain English The hearers of The Written Law are not righteous ones before God, but the doers of The Written Law are justified. Contemporary English Version God accepts those who obey his Law, but not those who simply hear it. Douay-Rheims Bible For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. English Revised Version for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified: GOD'S WORD® Translation People who merely listen to laws from God don't have God's approval. Rather, people who do what those laws demand will have God's approval. Good News Translation For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands. International Standard Version 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. Literal Standard Version for not the hearers of the Law [are] righteous before God, but the doers of the Law will be declared righteous. Majority Standard Bible For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. New American Bible For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified. NET Bible For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. New Revised Standard Version For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified. New Heart English Bible For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified. Webster's Bible Translation (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Weymouth New Testament It is not those that merely hear the Law read who are righteous in the sight of God, but it is those that obey the Law who will be pronounced righteous. World English Bible For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified Young's Literal Translation for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: -- Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Righteous Judgment…12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous. 14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.… Cross References Jeremiah 11:6 Then the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out. Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. Romans 2:25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 1 Corinthians 4:4 My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me. James 1:22 Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. Treasury of Scripture (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For not. Romans 2:25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Deuteronomy 4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. Deuteronomy 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. but the. Romans 3:20,23 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin… Romans 10:5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. Luke 10:25-29 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? … justified. Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Romans 4:2-5 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God… Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Jump to Previous Declared Doers God's Hear Hearers Judged Justified Law Merely Obey Pronounced Read Righteous Righteousness SightJump to Next Declared Doers God's Hear Hearers Judged Justified Law Merely Obey Pronounced Read Righteous Righteousness SightRomans 2 1. No excuse for sin.6. No escape from judgment. 14. Gentiles cannot; 17. nor Jews. (13) For not the hearers of the law.--The parenthesis should not be placed here (as usually in the Authorised version), but at the beginning of the next verse. The present verse is explanatory of that which precedes. "Judged, I say, by the Law; for they must not suppose that the mere fact of their being under the Law will exempt them from this judgment. The only exemption will be that which is given to those who have kept the Law, and not merely had the privilege of hearing it. And," the argument follows--the Apostle digressing for a moment to pursue this point to its conclusion--"this exemption, may apply quite as much to Gentile as to Jew." Hearers of the law.--Strictly (as above), hearers of law--i.e., those who have a law to which they can listen, and by which they may be guided. (Comp. Acts 13:27; Acts 15:21, "Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath"; and for the opposition between hearing and doing, James 1:22-23; James 1:25.) Verse 13. - For not the hearers of Law are just before God, but the doers of Law shall be justified; In this verse, as in the previous one,(1) Ὁ (2) (3) Greek For [it is]Conjunction Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. not Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. the Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. hearers ἀκροαταὶ (akroatai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 202: A hearer of, a listener to. From akroaomai; a hearer. of [the] Law νόμου (nomou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. [who are] righteous δίκαιοι (dikaioi) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 1342: From dike; equitable; by implication, innocent, holy. before Preposition Strong's 3844: Gen: from; dat: beside, in the presence of; acc: alongside of. God, Noun - Dative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. but [it is] ἀ Conjunction Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. the Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. doers ποιηταὶ (poiētai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 4163: (a) a maker, poet, (b) a doer, carrier out, performer. From poieo; a performer; specially, a 'poet'. of [the] Law νόμου (nomou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. [who] will be declared righteous. δικαιωθήσονται (dikaiōthēsontai) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 1344: From dikaios; to render just or innocent. 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