In Context

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

14 For when those of the nations, which have no law, practise by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

15 who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts accusing or else excusing themselves between themselves;)

16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my glad tidings, by Jesus Christ.

17 But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

18 and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Romans 2:16 in Other Translations