Romans 2:13

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.

Romans 2:13 in Other Translations

KJV
13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
ESV
13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
NLT
13 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.
MSG
13 Merely hearing God's law is a waste of your time if you don't do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.
CSB
13 For the hearers of the law are not righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.

Romans 2:13 In-Context

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 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)

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