13For 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.


In Context

10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

11 For God does not show favoritism.

12 All 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.

13 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.

14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,

15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)

Romans 2:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:13For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:13for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:13for not the hearers of a law are just before God, but the doers of a law shall be justified:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:13for not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.