Romans 2:13

It is not hearers of the law but doers who are righteous before God. Merely possessing or hearing the law saves no one.

Cross-references · 25

• Jas 1:22–25Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
• Jas 2:21–25Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
• Rom 2:25Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Gal 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
• Rom 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
• Luke 8:21But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• Gal 3:11–12Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Rom 4:2–5If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
• Luke 10:25–29One day an expert in the law stood up to test Him. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Ezek 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
• Deut 4:1Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
• Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
• Rom 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Acts 13:39Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.
• Matt 7:21–27Not 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.
• Deut 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
• Ezek 33:30–33As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Deut 30:12–14It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Gal 5:4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
• Deut 6:3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

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