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 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• Jas 2:21–25Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
• Rom 2:25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
• Rom 10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
• Luke 8:21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• Gal 3:11–12Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Rom 4:2–5For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
• Luke 10:25–29Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Ezek 20:11I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
• Deut 4:1Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
• Ps 143:2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
• Rom 3:30since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
• Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Matt 7:21–27Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
• Deut 5:1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
• Ezek 33:30–33As for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak to one another, everyone to his brother, saying, Please come and hear what is the word that comes out from Yahweh.
• Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Deut 30:12–14It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”
• Rom 3:23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Gal 5:4You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
• Deut 6:3Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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